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
Pete Sampras
reaches
Alexander Blockx
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20January 14, 2002 — March 18, 2002View Pete Sampras × Jarkko Nieminen →02 BridgeOpen career →Jarkko Nieminen
1 meeting01June 15, 2015View Jarkko Nieminen × Alexander Zverev →03 BridgeOpen career →Alexander Zverev
3 meetings30April 22, 2026 — June 30, 2026View Alexander Zverev × Alexander Blockx →04 DestinationOpen career →Alexander Blockx
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeMatteo Berrettini
- DestinationAlexander Blockx
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeDenis Shapovalov
- DestinationAlexander Blockx
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeCasper Ruud
- DestinationAlexander Blockx
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeFelix Auger-Aliassime
- DestinationAlexander Blockx
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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