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
Frederick Sletting Johnsen
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 8 meetings62January 11, 1993 — March 13, 2000View Pete Sampras × Andrei Medvedev →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Medvedev
1 meeting10September 19, 1997View Andrei Medvedev × Kornel Bardoczky →03 BridgeOpen career →Kornel Bardoczky
1 meeting10April 6, 2007View Kornel Bardoczky × Frederick Sletting Johnsen →04 DestinationOpen career →Frederick Sletting Johnsen
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
- BridgeDominik Hrbaty
- BridgeSlimane Saoudi
- DestinationFrederick Sletting Johnsen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKristian Pless
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- DestinationFrederick Sletting Johnsen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeSlimane Saoudi
- DestinationFrederick Sletting Johnsen
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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