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
Hamza Karmoussi
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01February 3, 2024View Hamza Karmoussi × Stylianos Christodoulou →02 BridgeOpen career →Stylianos Christodoulou
1 meeting01September 13, 2025View Stylianos Christodoulou × Valentin Vacherot →03 BridgeOpen career →Valentin Vacherot
1 meeting10October 27, 2025View Valentin Vacherot × Cameron Norrie →04 BridgeOpen career →Cameron Norrie
1 meeting01June 28, 2021View Cameron Norrie × Roger Federer →05 BridgeOpen career →Roger Federer
1 meeting10June 25, 2001View Roger Federer × Pete Sampras →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginHamza Karmoussi
- BridgeStylianos Christodoulou
- BridgeValentin Vacherot
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHamza Karmoussi
- BridgeStylianos Christodoulou
- BridgeValentin Vacherot
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHamza Karmoussi
- BridgeStylianos Christodoulou
- BridgeValentin Vacherot
- BridgeMatteo Berrettini
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHamza Karmoussi
- BridgeStylianos Christodoulou
- BridgeValentin Vacherot
- BridgeHubert Hurkacz
- 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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