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
Franz Luna Lavidalie
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 2 meetings20June 11, 2001 — August 20, 2001View Pete Sampras × Olivier Rochus →02 BridgeOpen career →Olivier Rochus
1 meeting10June 17, 2012View Olivier Rochus × Malek Jaziri →03 BridgeOpen career →Malek Jaziri
1 meeting10March 6, 2020View Malek Jaziri × Franz Luna Lavidalie →04 DestinationOpen career →Franz Luna Lavidalie
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeMalek Jaziri
- DestinationFranz Luna Lavidalie
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMardy Fish
- BridgeMalek Jaziri
- DestinationFranz Luna Lavidalie
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- BridgeMalek Jaziri
- DestinationFranz Luna Lavidalie
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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