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
Jason Engelhardt
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 3 meetings21June 7, 1999 — August 5, 2002View Pete Sampras × Wayne Arthurs →02 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Arthurs
1 meeting10August 16, 2004View Wayne Arthurs × Victor Hanescu →03 BridgeOpen career →Victor Hanescu
1 meeting10September 17, 2010View Victor Hanescu × Ivan Endara →04 BridgeOpen career →Ivan Endara
1 meeting10February 8, 2008View Ivan Endara × Jason Engelhardt →05 DestinationOpen career →Jason Engelhardt
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
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeVictor Hanescu
- BridgeIvan Endara
- DestinationJason Engelhardt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeVictor Hanescu
- BridgeIvan Endara
- DestinationJason Engelhardt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeVictor Hanescu
- BridgeIvan Endara
- DestinationJason Engelhardt
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeVictor Hanescu
- BridgeIvan Endara
- DestinationJason Engelhardt
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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