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
Peter Buldorini
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 8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
2 meetings11March 25, 2009 — June 8, 2015View Tommy Haas × Mikhail Kukushkin →03 BridgeOpen career →Mikhail Kukushkin
1 meeting01September 18, 2024View Mikhail Kukushkin × Bu Yunchaokete →04 BridgeOpen career →Bu Yunchaokete
1 meeting10September 13, 2025View Bu Yunchaokete × Peter Buldorini →05 DestinationOpen career →Peter Buldorini
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
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeAdrian Mannarino
- BridgeBu Yunchaokete
- DestinationPeter Buldorini
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeJan-Lennard Struff
- BridgeBu Yunchaokete
- DestinationPeter Buldorini
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeDavid Goffin
- BridgeBu Yunchaokete
- DestinationPeter Buldorini
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAlberto Martin
- BridgeMikhail Kukushkin
- BridgeBu Yunchaokete
- DestinationPeter Buldorini
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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