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
Kaan Isak Kosaner
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 2 meetings20February 23, 1998 — July 23, 2001View Pete Sampras × Xavier Malisse →02 BridgeOpen career →Xavier Malisse
1 meeting10June 16, 2013View Xavier Malisse × Roberto Bautista Agut →03 BridgeOpen career →Roberto Bautista Agut
1 meeting10January 6, 2020View Roberto Bautista Agut × Franco Roncadelli →04 BridgeOpen career →Franco Roncadelli
1 meeting01September 12, 2025View Franco Roncadelli × Filip Jeff Planinsek →05 BridgeOpen career →Filip Jeff Planinsek
1 meeting10February 6, 2026View Filip Jeff Planinsek × Kaan Isak Kosaner →06 DestinationOpen career →Kaan Isak Kosaner
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
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgeFranco Roncadelli
- BridgeFilip Jeff Planinsek
- DestinationKaan Isak Kosaner
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgeFranco Roncadelli
- BridgeFilip Jeff Planinsek
- DestinationKaan Isak Kosaner
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgeFranco Roncadelli
- BridgeFilip Jeff Planinsek
- DestinationKaan Isak Kosaner
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgeFranco Roncadelli
- BridgeFilip Jeff Planinsek
- DestinationKaan Isak Kosaner
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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