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
Brandon Holt
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 meetings20February 23, 1998 — July 23, 2001View Pete Sampras × Xavier Malisse →02 BridgeOpen career →Xavier Malisse
1 meeting10June 16, 2013View Xavier Malisse × Roberto Bautista Agut →03 BridgeOpen career →Roberto Bautista Agut
1 meeting10January 16, 2023View Roberto Bautista Agut × Brandon Holt →04 DestinationOpen career →Brandon Holt
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
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- BridgeThanasi Kokkinakis
- DestinationBrandon Holt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- DestinationBrandon Holt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- DestinationBrandon Holt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- DestinationBrandon Holt
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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