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
Florent Serra
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 10 meetings91June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Pete Sampras × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
2 meetings02October 24, 2005 — February 26, 2007View Jonas Bjorkman × Florent Serra →03 DestinationOpen career →Florent Serra
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- DestinationFlorent Serra
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationFlorent Serra
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- DestinationFlorent Serra
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBohdan Ulihrach
- DestinationFlorent Serra
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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