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
Bastian Knittel
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 meeting01July 11, 2011View Bastian Knittel × Juan Carlos Ferrero →02 BridgeOpen career →Juan Carlos Ferrero
3 meetings12July 26, 1999 — October 16, 2000View Juan Carlos Ferrero × Magnus Gustafsson →03 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Gustafsson
5 meetings05November 8, 1993 — January 19, 1998View Magnus Gustafsson × 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.
- OriginBastian Knittel
- BridgeJuan Carlos Ferrero
- BridgeTomas Carbonell
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBastian Knittel
- BridgeJuan Carlos Ferrero
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBastian Knittel
- BridgeJuan Carlos Ferrero
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBastian Knittel
- BridgeJuan Carlos Ferrero
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- 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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