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
Branko Djuric
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 7 meetings43May 13, 1991 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Fabrice Santoro →02 BridgeOpen career →Fabrice Santoro
2 meetings11October 28, 2007 — March 3, 2008View Fabrice Santoro × Novak Djokovic →03 BridgeOpen career →Novak Djokovic
2 meetings20May 29, 2023 — March 4, 2026View Novak Djokovic × Aleksandar Kovacevic →04 BridgeOpen career →Aleksandar Kovacevic
1 meeting10November 4, 2024View Aleksandar Kovacevic × Branko Djuric →05 DestinationOpen career →Branko Djuric
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
- BridgeAlex Calatrava
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeAleksandar Kovacevic
- DestinationBranko Djuric
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeAleksandar Kovacevic
- DestinationBranko Djuric
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Henman
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeAleksandar Kovacevic
- DestinationBranko Djuric
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeAleksandar Kovacevic
- DestinationBranko Djuric
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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