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
Steyn Dippenaar
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 5 meetings41April 26, 1993 — August 16, 1999View Pete Sampras × Vincent Spadea →02 BridgeOpen career →Vincent Spadea
1 meeting01March 27, 2008View Vincent Spadea × Pablo Cuevas →03 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Cuevas
1 meeting10April 7, 2018View Pablo Cuevas × Ricardo Rodriguez →04 BridgeOpen career →Ricardo Rodriguez
1 meeting01January 31, 2025View Ricardo Rodriguez × Mark Lajal →05 BridgeOpen career →Mark Lajal
1 meeting10February 7, 2026View Mark Lajal × Steyn Dippenaar →06 DestinationOpen career →Steyn Dippenaar
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
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationSteyn Dippenaar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationSteyn Dippenaar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAgustin Calleri
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationSteyn Dippenaar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeReilly Opelka
- BridgeJaume Munar
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationSteyn Dippenaar
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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