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
Mehdi Ziadi
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 8 meetings71June 26, 1989 — June 7, 1999View Pete Sampras × Todd Woodbridge →02 BridgeOpen career →Todd Woodbridge
1 meeting10September 24, 2004View Todd Woodbridge × Mehdi Ziadi →03 DestinationOpen career →Mehdi Ziadi
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJulien Boutter
- DestinationMehdi Ziadi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeOlivier Rochus
- DestinationMehdi Ziadi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationMehdi Ziadi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- DestinationMehdi Ziadi
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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