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
Markus Kerner
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 10 meetings91June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Pete Sampras × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
1 meeting01February 25, 2008View Jonas Bjorkman × Steve Darcis →03 BridgeOpen career →Steve Darcis
1 meeting01January 6, 2020View Steve Darcis × Dimitar Kuzmanov →04 BridgeOpen career →Dimitar Kuzmanov
1 meeting10April 5, 2013View Dimitar Kuzmanov × Markus Kerner →05 DestinationOpen career →Markus Kerner
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeSteve Darcis
- BridgeDimitar Kuzmanov
- DestinationMarkus Kerner
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- BridgeSteve Darcis
- BridgeDimitar Kuzmanov
- DestinationMarkus Kerner
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Henman
- BridgeRobin Haase
- BridgeDimitar Kuzmanov
- DestinationMarkus Kerner
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFelix Mantilla
- BridgeRobin Haase
- BridgeDimitar Kuzmanov
- DestinationMarkus Kerner
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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