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
Jaan Kononov
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 meeting10March 5, 2010View Marsel Ilhan × James Mcgee →04 BridgeOpen career →James Mcgee
1 meeting10February 1, 2013View James Mcgee × Jaan Kononov →05 DestinationOpen career →Jaan Kononov
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
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeAljaz Bedene
- BridgeJames Mcgee
- DestinationJaan Kononov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeJames Mcgee
- DestinationJaan Kononov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSebastien Grosjean
- BridgeMarsel Ilhan
- BridgeJames Mcgee
- DestinationJaan Kononov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeXavier Malisse
- BridgeMarsel Ilhan
- BridgeJames Mcgee
- DestinationJaan Kononov
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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