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
James Shortall
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 3 meetings21June 7, 1999 — August 5, 2002View Pete Sampras × Wayne Arthurs →02 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Arthurs
1 meeting10September 20, 2002View Wayne Arthurs × Harsh Mankad →03 BridgeOpen career →Harsh Mankad
1 meeting10April 5, 2002View Harsh Mankad × James Shortall →04 DestinationOpen career →James Shortall
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
- BridgeMikael Tillstrom
- BridgeHarsh Mankad
- DestinationJames Shortall
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeHarsh Mankad
- DestinationJames Shortall
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- DestinationJames Shortall
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeScott Draper
- BridgeRohan Bopanna
- DestinationJames Shortall
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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