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
Ji Sung Nam
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 8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
2 meetings11February 11, 2013 — February 17, 2014View Tommy Haas × Steve Johnson →03 BridgeOpen career →Steve Johnson
1 meeting10September 26, 2022View Steve Johnson × Ji Sung Nam →04 DestinationOpen career →Ji Sung Nam
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
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- BridgeSteve Johnson
- DestinationJi Sung Nam
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeSteve Johnson
- DestinationJi Sung Nam
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePhillip King
- BridgeWarit Sornbutnark
- DestinationJi Sung Nam
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- BridgeSteve Johnson
- DestinationJi Sung Nam
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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