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
Charles Irie
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 meeting10April 5, 2002View Xavier Malisse × Nikos Rovas →03 BridgeOpen career →Nikos Rovas
1 meeting10July 15, 2005View Nikos Rovas × Charles Irie →04 DestinationOpen career →Charles Irie
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeOlivier Rochus
- BridgeNikos Rovas
- DestinationCharles Irie
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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