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
Siu Fai Kelvin Lam
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 meeting10March 5, 2010View Siu Fai Kelvin Lam × Yasir Khan →02 BridgeOpen career →Yasir Khan
1 meeting01March 4, 2016View Yasir Khan × Ze Zhang →03 BridgeOpen career →Ze Zhang
3 meetings03July 8, 2011 — January 19, 2015View Ze Zhang × Lleyton Hewitt →04 BridgeOpen career →Lleyton Hewitt
9 meetings54August 17, 1998 — March 11, 2002View Lleyton Hewitt × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
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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