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
Kwami Stanislas Dussey
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 1 meeting01August 17, 1998View Pete Sampras × Leander Paes →02 BridgeOpen career →Leander Paes
1 meeting10April 7, 2006View Leander Paes × Aqeel Khan →03 BridgeOpen career →Aqeel Khan
1 meeting10September 14, 2024View Aqeel Khan × Kaipo Marshall →04 BridgeOpen career →Kaipo Marshall
1 meeting01September 17, 2021View Kaipo Marshall × Justin Barki →05 BridgeOpen career →Justin Barki
1 meeting10February 7, 2026View Justin Barki × Kwami Stanislas Dussey →06 DestinationOpen career →Kwami Stanislas Dussey
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
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeGo Soeda
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeJustin Barki
- DestinationKwami Stanislas Dussey
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeJustin Barki
- DestinationKwami Stanislas Dussey
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMariano Puerta
- BridgeGo Soeda
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeJustin Barki
- DestinationKwami Stanislas Dussey
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeXavier Malisse
- BridgeGo Soeda
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeJustin Barki
- DestinationKwami Stanislas Dussey
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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