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
Omar Hedayet
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 meeting10July 16, 2004View Omar Hedayet × Lado Chikhladze →02 BridgeOpen career →Lado Chikhladze
1 meeting01September 22, 2006View Lado Chikhladze × Kornel Bardoczky →03 BridgeOpen career →Kornel Bardoczky
1 meeting01September 19, 1997View Kornel Bardoczky × Andrei Medvedev →04 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Medvedev
8 meetings26January 11, 1993 — March 13, 2000View Andrei Medvedev × 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.
- OriginOmar Hedayet
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeKristian Pless
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginOmar Hedayet
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeIvaylo Traykov
- BridgeJan Kroslak
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginOmar Hedayet
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeIvaylo Traykov
- BridgeHarel Levy
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginOmar Hedayet
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeWesley Moodie
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- 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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