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
Johannes Ingildsen
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
1 meeting01June 26, 2017View Dominic Thiem × Ramkumar Ramanathan →04 BridgeOpen career →Ramkumar Ramanathan
1 meeting10March 4, 2022View Ramkumar Ramanathan × Johannes Ingildsen →05 DestinationOpen career →Johannes Ingildsen
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
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeRamkumar Ramanathan
- DestinationJohannes Ingildsen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeDavid Ferrer
- BridgeRamkumar Ramanathan
- DestinationJohannes Ingildsen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeAndreas Seppi
- BridgeRamkumar Ramanathan
- DestinationJohannes Ingildsen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeMarcos Baghdatis
- BridgeRamkumar Ramanathan
- DestinationJohannes Ingildsen
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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