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
Raphael Calzi
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 7 meetings43May 13, 1991 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Fabrice Santoro →02 BridgeOpen career →Fabrice Santoro
1 meeting10June 20, 2005View Fabrice Santoro × Stan Wawrinka →03 BridgeOpen career →Stan Wawrinka
1 meeting10February 23, 2026View Stan Wawrinka × Benjamin Hassan →04 BridgeOpen career →Benjamin Hassan
1 meeting10February 3, 2023View Benjamin Hassan × Oleksandr Ovcharenko →05 BridgeOpen career →Oleksandr Ovcharenko
1 meeting10February 7, 2026View Oleksandr Ovcharenko × Raphael Calzi →06 DestinationOpen career →Raphael Calzi
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeSergiy Stakhovsky
- BridgeYshai Oliel
- BridgeOleksandr Ovcharenko
- DestinationRaphael Calzi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeSergiy Stakhovsky
- BridgeYshai Oliel
- BridgeOleksandr Ovcharenko
- DestinationRaphael Calzi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeStan Wawrinka
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- BridgeOleksandr Ovcharenko
- DestinationRaphael Calzi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeSergiy Stakhovsky
- BridgeYshai Oliel
- BridgeOleksandr Ovcharenko
- DestinationRaphael Calzi
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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