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
Federico Browne
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01November 7, 1994View Federico Browne × Slava Dosedel →02 BridgeOpen career →Slava Dosedel
3 meetings03May 9, 1994 — April 7, 2000View Slava Dosedel × Pete Sampras →03 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 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginFederico Browne
- BridgeWayne Arthurs
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFederico Browne
- BridgeFernando Meligeni
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFederico Browne
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFederico Browne
- BridgeScott Draper
- 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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