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
Mikhail Filima
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 1 meeting10February 12, 1996View Pete Sampras × Nuno Marques →02 BridgeOpen career →Nuno Marques
1 meeting01September 19, 1997View Nuno Marques × Jan Frode Andersen →03 BridgeOpen career →Jan Frode Andersen
1 meeting01March 4, 2005View Jan Frode Andersen × Mikhail Filima →04 DestinationOpen career →Mikhail Filima
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
- BridgeJim Courier
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationMikhail Filima
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSergi Bruguera
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationMikhail Filima
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationMikhail Filima
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarim Alami
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationMikhail Filima
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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