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
Chun Hsin Tseng
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 7 meetings43May 13, 1991 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Fabrice Santoro →02 BridgeOpen career →Fabrice Santoro
1 meeting10January 14, 2008View Fabrice Santoro × John Isner →03 BridgeOpen career →John Isner
1 meeting10February 6, 2023View John Isner × Chun Hsin Tseng →04 DestinationOpen career →Chun Hsin Tseng
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeSergiy Stakhovsky
- DestinationChun Hsin Tseng
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- DestinationChun Hsin Tseng
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeSergiy Stakhovsky
- DestinationChun Hsin Tseng
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeSergiy Stakhovsky
- DestinationChun Hsin Tseng
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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