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
Mazen Osama
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 3 meetings30January 19, 1998 — June 12, 2000View Pete Sampras × Davide Sanguinetti →02 BridgeOpen career →Davide Sanguinetti
1 meeting01July 10, 2006View Davide Sanguinetti × Marco Chiudinelli →03 BridgeOpen career →Marco Chiudinelli
1 meeting10September 15, 2017View Marco Chiudinelli × Dzmitry Zhyrmont →04 BridgeOpen career →Dzmitry Zhyrmont
2 meetings20January 31, 2014 — March 6, 2015View Dzmitry Zhyrmont × Daniel Glancy →05 BridgeOpen career →Daniel Glancy
1 meeting01April 4, 2014View Daniel Glancy × Mazen Osama →06 DestinationOpen career →Mazen Osama
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeMarco Chiudinelli
- BridgeDzmitry Zhyrmont
- BridgeDaniel Glancy
- DestinationMazen Osama
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJiri Novak
- BridgeMarco Chiudinelli
- BridgeDzmitry Zhyrmont
- BridgeDaniel Glancy
- DestinationMazen Osama
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- BridgeMarco Chiudinelli
- BridgeDzmitry Zhyrmont
- BridgeDaniel Glancy
- DestinationMazen Osama
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeGrega Zemlja
- BridgeMicke Kontinen
- BridgeDaniel Glancy
- DestinationMazen Osama
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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