Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Giles Hussey
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01June 24, 2026View Giles Hussey × Quentin Halys →02 BridgeOpen career →Quentin Halys
1 meeting10May 23, 2016View Quentin Halys × Hyeon Chung →03 BridgeOpen career →Hyeon Chung
2 meetings02January 15, 2018 — March 5, 2018View Hyeon Chung × Roger Federer →04 BridgeOpen career →Roger Federer
1 meeting10June 25, 2001View Roger Federer × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginGiles Hussey
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeHyeon Chung
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGiles Hussey
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGiles Hussey
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeSumit Nagal
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGiles Hussey
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeIlya Ivashka
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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