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
Ekkarin Pisuth Arnonth
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 5 meetings50November 8, 1993 — January 19, 1998View Pete Sampras × Magnus Gustafsson →02 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Gustafsson
1 meeting10January 10, 2000View Magnus Gustafsson × Mark Nielsen →03 BridgeOpen career →Mark Nielsen
1 meeting10February 4, 2000View Mark Nielsen × Ekkarin Pisuth Arnonth →04 DestinationOpen career →Ekkarin Pisuth Arnonth
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
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationEkkarin Pisuth Arnonth
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFernando Meligeni
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationEkkarin Pisuth Arnonth
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationEkkarin Pisuth Arnonth
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationEkkarin Pisuth Arnonth
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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