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
Adrian Forberg Skogeng
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 meeting01July 9, 2010View Adrian Forberg Skogeng × Thomas Oger →02 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Oger
1 meeting01March 4, 2011View Thomas Oger × Frederik Nielsen →03 BridgeOpen career →Frederik Nielsen
1 meeting01February 24, 2003View Frederik Nielsen × Magnus Larsson →04 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Larsson
11 meetings47January 18, 1993 — August 10, 1998View Magnus Larsson × Pete Sampras →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAdrian Forberg Skogeng
- BridgeThomas Oger
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- BridgeGeorge Bastl
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAdrian Forberg Skogeng
- BridgeThomas Oger
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAdrian Forberg Skogeng
- BridgeThomas Oger
- BridgeIllya Marchenko
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAdrian Forberg Skogeng
- BridgeThomas Oger
- BridgeIllya Marchenko
- BridgeCarlos Moya
- 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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