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
Joseph Victorino
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 2 meetings11May 6, 1991 — March 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Karel Novacek →02 BridgeOpen career →Karel Novacek
1 meeting10January 15, 1990View Karel Novacek × Michael Brown B395 →03 BridgeOpen career →Michael Brown B395
1 meeting10April 9, 2004View Michael Brown B395 × Joseph Victorino →04 DestinationOpen career →Joseph Victorino
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
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeBen Qiang Zhu
- DestinationJoseph Victorino
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeBen Qiang Zhu
- DestinationJoseph Victorino
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeBen Qiang Zhu
- DestinationJoseph Victorino
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn Van Lottum
- BridgeBen Qiang Zhu
- DestinationJoseph Victorino
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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