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
Christopher Bulus
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 34 meetings2014May 15, 1989 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Andre Agassi →02 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
1 meeting10October 25, 2004View Andre Agassi × Fernando Verdasco →03 BridgeOpen career →Fernando Verdasco
1 meeting10February 4, 2019View Fernando Verdasco × Alexandar Lazarov →04 BridgeOpen career →Alexandar Lazarov
1 meeting10September 16, 2022View Alexandar Lazarov × Philip Henning →05 BridgeOpen career →Philip Henning
1 meeting10February 1, 2025View Philip Henning × Christopher Bulus →06 DestinationOpen career →Christopher Bulus
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeFernando Verdasco
- BridgeAlexandar Lazarov
- BridgePhilip Henning
- DestinationChristopher Bulus
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeFernando Verdasco
- BridgeAlexandar Lazarov
- BridgePhilip Henning
- DestinationChristopher Bulus
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeFernando Verdasco
- BridgeAlexandar Lazarov
- BridgePhilip Henning
- DestinationChristopher Bulus
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeStan Wawrinka
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- BridgePhilip Henning
- DestinationChristopher Bulus
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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