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
Alex Witt
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 meeting10March 16, 1990View Pete Sampras × Jean Philippe Fleurian →02 BridgeOpen career →Jean Philippe Fleurian
1 meeting01January 13, 1997View Jean Philippe Fleurian × Jens Knippschild →03 BridgeOpen career →Jens Knippschild
1 meeting10June 12, 2000View Jens Knippschild × Alex Witt →04 DestinationOpen career →Alex Witt
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMark Woodforde
- BridgeJens Knippschild
- DestinationAlex Witt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeJens Knippschild
- DestinationAlex Witt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrei Chesnokov
- BridgeJens Knippschild
- DestinationAlex Witt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Haarhuis
- BridgeJens Knippschild
- DestinationAlex Witt
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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