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
Max Basing
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 9 meetings45August 17, 1998 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Lleyton Hewitt →02 BridgeOpen career →Lleyton Hewitt
1 meeting10December 29, 2013View Lleyton Hewitt × Thanasi Kokkinakis →03 BridgeOpen career →Thanasi Kokkinakis
1 meeting10March 22, 2021View Thanasi Kokkinakis × Shintaro Mochizuki →04 BridgeOpen career →Shintaro Mochizuki
1 meeting10June 29, 2026View Shintaro Mochizuki × Max Basing →05 DestinationOpen career →Max Basing
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
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeShintaro Mochizuki
- DestinationMax Basing
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- BridgeShintaro Mochizuki
- DestinationMax Basing
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeStefanos Tsitsipas
- BridgeShintaro Mochizuki
- DestinationMax Basing
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeHubert Hurkacz
- BridgeShintaro Mochizuki
- DestinationMax Basing
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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