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
Max Dahlin
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 11 meetings92August 27, 1990 — March 9, 1998View Pete Sampras × Thomas Muster →02 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Muster
1 meeting01October 24, 2011View Thomas Muster × Dominic Thiem →03 BridgeOpen career →Dominic Thiem
2 meetings02July 11, 2022 — July 31, 2023View Dominic Thiem × Sebastian Baez →04 BridgeOpen career →Sebastian Baez
1 meeting10July 14, 2026View Sebastian Baez × Max Dahlin →05 DestinationOpen career →Max Dahlin
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
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFernando Verdasco
- BridgeSebastian Baez
- DestinationMax Dahlin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeSebastian Baez
- DestinationMax Dahlin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeFernando Verdasco
- BridgeSebastian Baez
- DestinationMax Dahlin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeSebastian Baez
- DestinationMax Dahlin
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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