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
Jie Cui
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 11 meetings92August 27, 1990 — March 9, 1998View Pete Sampras × Thomas Muster →02 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Muster
1 meeting01October 24, 2011View Thomas Muster × Dominic Thiem →03 BridgeOpen career →Dominic Thiem
4 meetings22July 18, 2022 — July 15, 2024View Dominic Thiem × Juan Pablo Varillas →04 BridgeOpen career →Juan Pablo Varillas
1 meeting10September 20, 2023View Juan Pablo Varillas × Jie Cui →05 DestinationOpen career →Jie Cui
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
- BridgeThomas Muster
- BridgeDominic Thiem
- BridgeThiago Monteiro
- DestinationJie Cui
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- BridgeGiovanni Lapentti
- BridgeThiago Monteiro
- DestinationJie Cui
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- BridgeThiago Monteiro
- DestinationJie Cui
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFlorian Mayer
- BridgeThiago Monteiro
- DestinationJie Cui
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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