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
Siim Troost
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 1 meeting01June 25, 2001View Pete Sampras × Roger Federer →02 BridgeOpen career →Roger Federer
2 meetings20June 6, 2016 — January 14, 2019View Roger Federer × Taylor Fritz →03 BridgeOpen career →Taylor Fritz
1 meeting10August 25, 2025View Taylor Fritz × Jerome Kym →04 BridgeOpen career →Jerome Kym
1 meeting10September 17, 2021View Jerome Kym × Siim Troost →05 DestinationOpen career →Siim Troost
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
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeStefanos Tsitsipas
- BridgeJerome Kym
- DestinationSiim Troost
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- BridgeJerome Kym
- DestinationSiim Troost
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- BridgeStefanos Tsitsipas
- BridgeJerome Kym
- DestinationSiim Troost
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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