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
Andrey Kumantsov
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 6 meetings60May 23, 1994 — January 17, 2000View Pete Sampras × Mikael Tillstrom →02 BridgeOpen career →Mikael Tillstrom
1 meeting10October 16, 2000View Mikael Tillstrom × Nicolas Mahut →03 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Mahut
1 meeting10February 14, 2011View Nicolas Mahut × Andrey Kumantsov →04 DestinationOpen career →Andrey Kumantsov
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
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeNicolas Mahut
- DestinationAndrey Kumantsov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeNicolas Mahut
- DestinationAndrey Kumantsov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeNicolas Mahut
- DestinationAndrey Kumantsov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJerome Golmard
- BridgeNicolas Mahut
- DestinationAndrey Kumantsov
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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