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
Dragos Nicolae Madaras
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 1 meeting01June 25, 2001View Pete Sampras × Roger Federer →02 BridgeOpen career →Roger Federer
1 meeting10May 27, 2019View Roger Federer × Oscar Otte →03 BridgeOpen career →Oscar Otte
1 meeting10September 26, 2022View Oscar Otte × Dragos Nicolae Madaras →04 DestinationOpen career →Dragos Nicolae Madaras
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
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- BridgeTaro Daniel
- DestinationDragos Nicolae Madaras
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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