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
Hazem Naw
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 meeting01March 6, 2020View Hazem Naw × Benjamin Lock →02 BridgeOpen career →Benjamin Lock
1 meeting10April 7, 2018View Benjamin Lock × Michal Przysiezny →03 BridgeOpen career →Michal Przysiezny
1 meeting01July 9, 2007View Michal Przysiezny × Jonas Bjorkman →04 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
10 meetings19June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Jonas Bjorkman × 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.
- OriginHazem Naw
- BridgeBenjamin Lock
- BridgeMichal Przysiezny
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHazem Naw
- BridgeBenjamin Lock
- BridgeMichal Przysiezny
- BridgeAgustin Calleri
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHazem Naw
- BridgeBenjamin Lock
- BridgeMichal Przysiezny
- BridgeVladimir Voltchkov
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHazem Naw
- BridgeBenjamin Lock
- BridgeMichal Przysiezny
- BridgeJiri Vanek
- 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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