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
Gilbert Wong
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 10 meetings91June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Pete Sampras × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
1 meeting10June 14, 2004View Jonas Bjorkman × Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi →03 BridgeOpen career →Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi
1 meeting10February 1, 2013View Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi × Dineshkanthan Thangarajah →04Open career → 1 meeting10July 9, 2010View Dineshkanthan Thangarajah × Gilbert Wong →05 DestinationOpen career →Gilbert Wong
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- DestinationGilbert Wong
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- DestinationGilbert Wong
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeKarim Alayli
- DestinationGilbert Wong
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeCarlos Moya
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- DestinationGilbert Wong
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.
Reverse the route →