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
Carl Soderlund
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 9 meetings45August 17, 1998 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Lleyton Hewitt →02 BridgeOpen career →Lleyton Hewitt
1 meeting10March 20, 2013View Lleyton Hewitt × Joao Sousa →03 BridgeOpen career →Joao Sousa
1 meeting10July 11, 2016View Joao Sousa × Carl Soderlund →04 DestinationOpen career →Carl Soderlund
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
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- DestinationCarl Soderlund
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- DestinationCarl Soderlund
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- DestinationCarl Soderlund
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- BridgeJoao Sousa
- DestinationCarl Soderlund
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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