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
Mees Rottgering
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
1 meeting01April 3, 2023View Dominic Thiem × Quentin Halys →04 BridgeOpen career →Quentin Halys
1 meeting10February 9, 2026View Quentin Halys × Mees Rottgering →05 DestinationOpen career →Mees Rottgering
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
- BridgeThomas Muster
- BridgeDominic Thiem
- BridgeBenjamin Bonzi
- DestinationMees Rottgering
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- DestinationMees Rottgering
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- DestinationMees Rottgering
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeBenjamin Bonzi
- DestinationMees Rottgering
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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