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
Gleb Sakharov
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 26, 2018View Gleb Sakharov × Philipp Kohlschreiber →02 BridgeOpen career →Philipp Kohlschreiber
1 meeting10July 31, 2011View Philipp Kohlschreiber × Thomas Muster →03 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Muster
11 meetings29August 27, 1990 — March 9, 1998View Thomas Muster × 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.
- OriginGleb Sakharov
- BridgePhilipp Kohlschreiber
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGleb Sakharov
- BridgePhilipp Kohlschreiber
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGleb Sakharov
- BridgePhilipp Kohlschreiber
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGleb Sakharov
- BridgePhilipp Kohlschreiber
- BridgeAlex Corretja
- 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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