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
Fabrice Martin
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 7 meetings43May 13, 1991 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Fabrice Santoro →02 BridgeOpen career →Fabrice Santoro
1 meeting10October 5, 2009View Fabrice Santoro × Andrey Golubev →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrey Golubev
1 meeting10February 23, 2015View Andrey Golubev × Fabrice Martin →04 DestinationOpen career →Fabrice Martin
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
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- BridgeAndrey Golubev
- DestinationFabrice Martin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeAndrey Golubev
- DestinationFabrice Martin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMarat Safin
- BridgeAndrey Golubev
- DestinationFabrice Martin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMichael Llodra
- BridgeAndrey Golubev
- DestinationFabrice Martin
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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