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
Martin Rmus
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 6 meetings60June 21, 1993 — March 4, 2002View Pete Sampras × Byron Black →02 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting10January 14, 2002View Byron Black × Irakli Labadze →03 BridgeOpen career →Irakli Labadze
1 meeting10July 16, 2004View Irakli Labadze × Mohamed Mamoun →04 BridgeOpen career →Mohamed Mamoun
1 meeting10April 4, 2003View Mohamed Mamoun × Stephen Nugent →05 BridgeOpen career →Stephen Nugent
1 meeting10July 21, 2006View Stephen Nugent × Martin Rmus →06 DestinationOpen career →Martin Rmus
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- BridgeIrakli Labadze
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeStephen Nugent
- DestinationMartin Rmus
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeStephen Nugent
- DestinationMartin Rmus
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKristian Pless
- BridgeJohn Doran
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeStephen Nugent
- DestinationMartin Rmus
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKristian Pless
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeStephen Nugent
- DestinationMartin Rmus
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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