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
Kris Van Wyk
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 meeting01February 2, 2024View Kris Van Wyk × Nam Hoang Ly →02 BridgeOpen career →Nam Hoang Ly
1 meeting01March 6, 2020View Nam Hoang Ly × Lamine Ouahab →03 BridgeOpen career →Lamine Ouahab
1 meeting01October 26, 2009View Lamine Ouahab × Michael Llodra →04 BridgeOpen career →Michael Llodra
2 meetings02June 12, 2000 — July 31, 2000View Michael Llodra × 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.
- OriginKris Van Wyk
- BridgeNam Hoang Ly
- BridgeLamine Ouahab
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginKris Van Wyk
- BridgeNam Hoang Ly
- BridgeChristopher Rungkat
- BridgePhillip King
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginKris Van Wyk
- BridgeNam Hoang Ly
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginKris Van Wyk
- BridgeAlex Knaff
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- 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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