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
Herkko Pollanen
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 7 meetings61April 4, 1994 — August 7, 2000View Pete Sampras × Tim Henman →02 BridgeOpen career →Tim Henman
1 meeting01May 28, 2007View Tim Henman × Ernests Gulbis →03 BridgeOpen career →Ernests Gulbis
1 meeting10September 13, 2013View Ernests Gulbis × Herkko Pollanen →04 DestinationOpen career →Herkko Pollanen
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- BridgeErnests Gulbis
- DestinationHerkko Pollanen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeErnests Gulbis
- DestinationHerkko Pollanen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeErnests Gulbis
- DestinationHerkko Pollanen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeCarlos Moya
- BridgeErnests Gulbis
- DestinationHerkko Pollanen
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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