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
Christopher O'Connell
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 9 meetings45August 17, 1998 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Lleyton Hewitt →02 BridgeOpen career →Lleyton Hewitt
1 meeting10January 18, 2016View Lleyton Hewitt × James Duckworth →03 BridgeOpen career →James Duckworth
1 meeting10August 4, 2026View James Duckworth × Christopher O'Connell →04 DestinationOpen career →Christopher O'Connell
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
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeJames Duckworth
- DestinationChristopher O'Connell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- DestinationChristopher O'Connell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeCasper Ruud
- DestinationChristopher O'Connell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeJames Duckworth
- DestinationChristopher O'Connell
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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