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
Pete Sampras
reaches
Alen Avidzba
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 6 meetings60June 21, 1993 — March 4, 2002View Pete Sampras × Byron Black →02 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting01December 31, 2001View Byron Black × Ivo Karlovic →03 BridgeOpen career →Ivo Karlovic
1 meeting10May 18, 2014View Ivo Karlovic × Nikola Milojevic →04 BridgeOpen career →Nikola Milojevic
1 meeting10October 14, 2019View Nikola Milojevic × Alen Avidzba →05 DestinationOpen career →Alen Avidzba
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeNikola Milojevic
- DestinationAlen Avidzba
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeNikola Milojevic
- DestinationAlen Avidzba
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeNikola Milojevic
- DestinationAlen Avidzba
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeWayne Arthurs
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeNikola Milojevic
- DestinationAlen Avidzba
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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