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
Kyrian Jacquet
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 meetings20August 9, 1999 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Rainer Schuettler →02 BridgeOpen career →Rainer Schuettler
1 meeting01April 4, 2011View Rainer Schuettler × Grigor Dimitrov →03 BridgeOpen career →Grigor Dimitrov
1 meeting10August 26, 2024View Grigor Dimitrov × Kyrian Jacquet →04 DestinationOpen career →Kyrian Jacquet
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
- BridgeGuillermo Canas
- BridgeGrigor Dimitrov
- DestinationKyrian Jacquet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeGrigor Dimitrov
- DestinationKyrian Jacquet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJuan Ignacio Chela
- BridgeGrigor Dimitrov
- DestinationKyrian Jacquet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMichael Llodra
- BridgeGrigor Dimitrov
- DestinationKyrian Jacquet
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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