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
Dmitry Popko
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 10 meetings91June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Pete Sampras × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
1 meeting01August 27, 2007View Jonas Bjorkman × Andy Murray →03 BridgeOpen career →Andy Murray
1 meeting10September 18, 2022View Andy Murray × Dmitry Popko →04 DestinationOpen career →Dmitry Popko
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationDmitry Popko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeMarin Cilic
- DestinationDmitry Popko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationDmitry Popko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Henman
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationDmitry Popko
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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