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
Nicolas Jadoun
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 8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
1 meeting01April 8, 2013View Tommy Haas × Ricardas Berankis →03 BridgeOpen career →Ricardas Berankis
2 meetings20March 4, 2022 — February 3, 2023View Ricardas Berankis × Muhammad Shoaib →04 BridgeOpen career →Muhammad Shoaib
1 meeting10February 6, 2026View Muhammad Shoaib × Nicolas Jadoun →05 DestinationOpen career →Nicolas Jadoun
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMardy Fish
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeMuhammad Shoaib
- DestinationNicolas Jadoun
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeMuhammad Shoaib
- DestinationNicolas Jadoun
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndy Roddick
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeMuhammad Shoaib
- DestinationNicolas Jadoun
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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