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
Kasper Warming
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 4 meetings31October 29, 1990 — August 16, 1999View Pete Sampras × Guillaume Raoux →02 BridgeOpen career →Guillaume Raoux
1 meeting10March 11, 1996View Guillaume Raoux × Patrik Langvardt →03 BridgeOpen career →Patrik Langvardt
1 meeting10May 3, 2002View Patrik Langvardt × Evghenii Plugariov →04 BridgeOpen career →Evghenii Plugariov
1 meeting01May 3, 2002View Evghenii Plugariov × Kasper Warming →05 DestinationOpen career →Kasper Warming
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
- BridgeSlava Dosedel
- BridgePatrik Langvardt
- BridgeEvghenii Plugariov
- DestinationKasper Warming
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeAmro Ghoneim
- BridgeEvghenii Plugariov
- DestinationKasper Warming
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarol Kucera
- BridgeAmro Ghoneim
- BridgeEvghenii Plugariov
- DestinationKasper Warming
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- BridgeAmro Ghoneim
- BridgeEvghenii Plugariov
- DestinationKasper Warming
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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