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
Ognen Nikolovski
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 meeting01May 3, 1996View Ognen Nikolovski × Amro Ghoneim →02 BridgeOpen career →Amro Ghoneim
1 meeting01September 20, 1996View Amro Ghoneim × Greg Rusedski →03 BridgeOpen career →Greg Rusedski
10 meetings19June 26, 1995 — August 26, 2002View Greg Rusedski × 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.
- OriginOgnen Nikolovski
- BridgeAmro Ghoneim
- BridgeKarol Kucera
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginOgnen Nikolovski
- BridgeAmro Ghoneim
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginOgnen Nikolovski
- BridgeAmro Ghoneim
- BridgeTim Henman
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginOgnen Nikolovski
- BridgeValentin Sanon
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- 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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