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
Andrei Luzgin
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 2 meetings20June 18, 1990 — July 29, 1991View Pete Sampras × Gilad Bloom →02 BridgeOpen career →Gilad Bloom
1 meeting10March 31, 1995View Gilad Bloom × Helge Koll →03 BridgeOpen career →Helge Koll
1 meeting10April 27, 2001View Helge Koll × Andrei Luzgin →04 DestinationOpen career →Andrei Luzgin
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
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationAndrei Luzgin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJim Courier
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationAndrei Luzgin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSergi Bruguera
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationAndrei Luzgin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationAndrei Luzgin
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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