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
Palaphoom Kovapitukted
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 10 meetings91June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Pete Sampras × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
2 meetings11June 12, 2006 — June 25, 2007View Jonas Bjorkman × Jimmy Wang →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Wang
1 meeting01September 16, 2011View Jimmy Wang × Jeson Patrombon →04 BridgeOpen career →Jeson Patrombon
1 meeting01April 5, 2019View Jeson Patrombon × Palaphoom Kovapitukted →05 DestinationOpen career →Palaphoom Kovapitukted
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeStan Wawrinka
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- DestinationPalaphoom Kovapitukted
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeStan Wawrinka
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- DestinationPalaphoom Kovapitukted
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- BridgeJimmy Wang
- BridgeJeson Patrombon
- DestinationPalaphoom Kovapitukted
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Henman
- BridgeStan Wawrinka
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- DestinationPalaphoom Kovapitukted
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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