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
Cleeve Harper
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
1 meeting10April 10, 2017View Tommy Haas × Reilly Opelka →03 BridgeOpen career →Reilly Opelka
1 meeting01November 2, 2025View Reilly Opelka × Vit Kopriva →04 BridgeOpen career →Vit Kopriva
1 meeting10February 3, 2024View Vit Kopriva × Orel Kimhi →05 BridgeOpen career →Orel Kimhi
1 meeting01September 12, 2025View Orel Kimhi × Cleeve Harper →06 DestinationOpen career →Cleeve Harper
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgePablo Carreno Busta
- BridgeLiam Draxl
- BridgeOrel Kimhi
- DestinationCleeve Harper
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeVit Kopriva
- BridgeOrel Kimhi
- DestinationCleeve Harper
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- BridgeLiam Draxl
- BridgeOrel Kimhi
- DestinationCleeve Harper
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeVit Kopriva
- BridgeOrel Kimhi
- DestinationCleeve Harper
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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