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
August Holmgren
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 meeting01February 3, 2023View August Holmgren × Sumit Nagal →02 BridgeOpen career →Sumit Nagal
1 meeting01August 26, 2019View Sumit Nagal × Roger Federer →03 BridgeOpen career →Roger Federer
1 meeting10June 25, 2001View Roger Federer × 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.
- OriginAugust Holmgren
- BridgeErnesto Escobedo
- BridgeTommy Haas
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAugust Holmgren
- BridgeAlex de Minaur
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAugust Holmgren
- BridgeGrigor Dimitrov
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAugust Holmgren
- BridgeGrigor Dimitrov
- BridgeGuillermo Canas
- 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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