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
Nortay Dowuona
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 meeting01May 2, 1997View Nortay Dowuona × Krystian Pfeiffer →02 BridgeOpen career →Krystian Pfeiffer
1 meeting10July 20, 2001View Krystian Pfeiffer × Dusan Vemic →03 BridgeOpen career →Dusan Vemic
2 meetings11May 11, 1998 — September 28, 1998View Dusan Vemic × Francisco Clavet →04 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Clavet
4 meetings04March 17, 1997 — June 25, 2001View Francisco Clavet × 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.
- OriginNortay Dowuona
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- BridgeDusan Vemic
- BridgeNuno Marques
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginNortay Dowuona
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- BridgeDusan Vemic
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginNortay Dowuona
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- BridgeDusan Vemic
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginNortay Dowuona
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- BridgeDusan Vemic
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- 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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