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
Maxime Authom
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 4 meetings40March 17, 1997 — June 25, 2001View Pete Sampras × Francisco Clavet →02 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Clavet
2 meetings20July 19, 1999 — August 12, 2002View Francisco Clavet × Bjorn Phau →03 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Phau
1 meeting10August 27, 2012View Bjorn Phau × Maxime Authom →04 DestinationOpen career →Maxime Authom
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
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeBjorn Phau
- DestinationMaxime Authom
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTodd Woodbridge
- BridgeBjorn Phau
- DestinationMaxime Authom
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeBjorn Phau
- DestinationMaxime Authom
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeBjorn Phau
- DestinationMaxime Authom
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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