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
Fred Simonsson
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 meeting01July 11, 2016View Fred Simonsson × Carl Soderlund →02 BridgeOpen career →Carl Soderlund
1 meeting01July 11, 2016View Carl Soderlund × Joao Sousa →03 BridgeOpen career →Joao Sousa
1 meeting01March 20, 2013View Joao Sousa × Lleyton Hewitt →04 BridgeOpen career →Lleyton Hewitt
9 meetings54August 17, 1998 — March 11, 2002View Lleyton Hewitt × 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.
- OriginFred Simonsson
- BridgeCarl Soderlund
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFred Simonsson
- BridgeCarl Soderlund
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFred Simonsson
- BridgeCarl Soderlund
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFred Simonsson
- BridgeCarl Soderlund
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- 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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