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
Johnny Goudenbour
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 2 meetings20May 3, 1991 — May 1, 1992View Johnny Goudenbour × Jerome Seguin →02 BridgeOpen career →Jerome Seguin
1 meeting01July 16, 1993View Jerome Seguin × Dinu Pescariu →03 BridgeOpen career →Dinu Pescariu
1 meeting01January 13, 1997View Dinu Pescariu × 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.
- OriginJohnny Goudenbour
- BridgeAnders Haseth
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJohnny Goudenbour
- BridgeAnders Haseth
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJohnny Goudenbour
- BridgeDenis Langaskens
- BridgeVeli Paloheimo
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJohnny Goudenbour
- BridgePaul Wekesa
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- 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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