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
Mark Chigaazira
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
4 meetings31May 10, 2021 — August 26, 2024View Reilly Opelka × Lorenzo Musetti →04 BridgeOpen career →Lorenzo Musetti
1 meeting10January 2, 2023View Lorenzo Musetti × Daniel Michalski →05 BridgeOpen career →Daniel Michalski
1 meeting10April 7, 2018View Daniel Michalski × Mark Chigaazira →06 DestinationOpen career →Mark Chigaazira
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
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeTimofey Skatov
- BridgeDaniel Michalski
- DestinationMark Chigaazira
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeMarc Andrea Huesler
- BridgeDaniel Michalski
- DestinationMark Chigaazira
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeLorenzo Musetti
- BridgeDaniel Michalski
- DestinationMark Chigaazira
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeSumit Nagal
- BridgeMarc Andrea Huesler
- BridgeDaniel Michalski
- DestinationMark Chigaazira
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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