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
Xavier Lawrence
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 3 meetings21November 2, 1998 — May 20, 2002View Pete Sampras × Thomas Johansson →02 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Johansson
1 meeting10June 16, 2008View Thomas Johansson × Kei Nishikori →03 BridgeOpen career →Kei Nishikori
1 meeting10September 14, 2024View Kei Nishikori × Nicolas Mejia →04 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Mejia
1 meeting10January 31, 2025View Nicolas Mejia × Xavier Lawrence →05 DestinationOpen career →Xavier Lawrence
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
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeHoracio Zeballos
- BridgeNicolas Mejia
- DestinationXavier Lawrence
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeKei Nishikori
- BridgeNicolas Mejia
- DestinationXavier Lawrence
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeCarlos Moya
- BridgeHoracio Zeballos
- BridgeNicolas Mejia
- DestinationXavier Lawrence
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDominik Hrbaty
- BridgeKei Nishikori
- BridgeNicolas Mejia
- DestinationXavier Lawrence
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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