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
Steyn Dippenaar
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 1 meeting01February 7, 2026View Steyn Dippenaar × Mark Lajal →02 BridgeOpen career →Mark Lajal
1 meeting10June 9, 2025View Mark Lajal × Laslo Djere →03 BridgeOpen career →Laslo Djere
4 meetings04April 12, 2021 — March 18, 2024View Laslo Djere × Karen Khachanov →04 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting01June 19, 2017View Karen Khachanov × Roger Federer →05 BridgeOpen career →Roger Federer
1 meeting10June 25, 2001View Roger Federer × Pete Sampras →06 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
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.
- OriginSteyn Dippenaar
- BridgeMark Lajal
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeSumit Nagal
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSteyn Dippenaar
- BridgeMark Lajal
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeIlya Ivashka
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSteyn Dippenaar
- BridgeMark Lajal
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSteyn Dippenaar
- BridgeMark Lajal
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete 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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