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
Alexander Bury
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10September 14, 2012View Alexander Bury × Marcin Matkowski →02 BridgeOpen career →Marcin Matkowski
1 meeting01August 1, 2005View Marcin Matkowski × Felix Mantilla →03 BridgeOpen career →Felix Mantilla
5 meetings23October 21, 1996 — May 6, 2002View Felix Mantilla × Pete Sampras →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAlexander Bury
- BridgeMarcin Matkowski
- BridgeGalo Blanco
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlexander Bury
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlexander Bury
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlexander Bury
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- 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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