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
Georgii Kravchenko
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
1 meeting01May 22, 2011View Tommy Haas × Marsel Ilhan →03 BridgeOpen career →Marsel Ilhan
1 meeting10February 3, 2017View Marsel Ilhan × Menelaos Efstathiou →04 BridgeOpen career →Menelaos Efstathiou
1 meeting01September 20, 2026View Menelaos Efstathiou × Georgii Kravchenko →05 DestinationOpen career →Georgii Kravchenko
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSebastien Grosjean
- BridgeMarsel Ilhan
- BridgeMenelaos Efstathiou
- DestinationGeorgii Kravchenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeXavier Malisse
- BridgeMarsel Ilhan
- BridgeMenelaos Efstathiou
- DestinationGeorgii Kravchenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- BridgeMarsel Ilhan
- BridgeMenelaos Efstathiou
- DestinationGeorgii Kravchenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- BridgeMarsel Ilhan
- BridgeMenelaos Efstathiou
- DestinationGeorgii Kravchenko
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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