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
Antoine Breikeh
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 meeting01April 7, 2006View Antoine Breikeh × Abdullah Maqdas →02 BridgeOpen career →Abdullah Maqdas
1 meeting01July 15, 2005View Abdullah Maqdas × Mark Nielsen →03 BridgeOpen career →Mark Nielsen
1 meeting01January 10, 2000View Mark Nielsen × Magnus Gustafsson →04 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Gustafsson
5 meetings05November 8, 1993 — January 19, 1998View Magnus Gustafsson × 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.
- OriginAntoine Breikeh
- BridgeAbdullah Maqdas
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAntoine Breikeh
- BridgeAbdullah Maqdas
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- BridgeFernando Meligeni
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAntoine Breikeh
- BridgeAbdullah Maqdas
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- BridgeLeander Paes
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAntoine Breikeh
- BridgeAbdullah Maqdas
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- 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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