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
Kris Van Wyk
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20June 12, 2000 — July 31, 2000View Pete Sampras × Michael Llodra →02 BridgeOpen career →Michael Llodra
1 meeting10October 26, 2009View Michael Llodra × Lamine Ouahab →03 BridgeOpen career →Lamine Ouahab
1 meeting10March 6, 2020View Lamine Ouahab × Nam Hoang Ly →04 BridgeOpen career →Nam Hoang Ly
1 meeting10February 2, 2024View Nam Hoang Ly × Kris Van Wyk →05 DestinationOpen career →Kris Van Wyk
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- BridgeNam Hoang Ly
- DestinationKris Van Wyk
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- BridgeAlex Knaff
- DestinationKris Van Wyk
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePhillip King
- BridgeChristopher Rungkat
- BridgeNam Hoang Ly
- DestinationKris Van Wyk
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- BridgeLamine Ouahab
- BridgeNam Hoang Ly
- DestinationKris Van Wyk
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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