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
Edgars Manusis
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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
2 meetings20July 1, 2019 — November 11, 2019View Roger Federer × Matteo Berrettini →03 BridgeOpen career →Matteo Berrettini
1 meeting10January 5, 2021View Matteo Berrettini × Ergi Kirkin →04 BridgeOpen career →Ergi Kirkin
1 meeting10September 18, 2021View Ergi Kirkin × Edgars Manusis →05 DestinationOpen career →Edgars Manusis
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgePeter Gojowczyk
- BridgeErgi Kirkin
- DestinationEdgars Manusis
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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