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
Elbert Sie
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 meeting10July 26, 1993View Pete Sampras × Kenneth Carlsen →02 BridgeOpen career →Kenneth Carlsen
1 meeting10July 31, 2006View Kenneth Carlsen × Danai Udomchoke →03 BridgeOpen career →Danai Udomchoke
1 meeting10July 8, 2011View Danai Udomchoke × Elbert Sie →04 DestinationOpen career →Elbert Sie
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
- BridgeOliver Gross
- BridgeWing Luen Wong
- DestinationElbert Sie
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- DestinationElbert Sie
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBarry Cowan
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- DestinationElbert Sie
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Henman
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- DestinationElbert Sie
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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