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
Philip Riise Hansen
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 9 meetings90November 5, 1990 — May 16, 1999View Pete Sampras × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting10February 12, 2001View Cedric Pioline × Jean Rene Lisnard →03 BridgeOpen career →Jean Rene Lisnard
1 meeting10July 20, 2007View Jean Rene Lisnard × Adam Kellner →04 BridgeOpen career →Adam Kellner
1 meeting10April 6, 2007View Adam Kellner × Philip Riise Hansen →05 DestinationOpen career →Philip Riise Hansen
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
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJean Rene Lisnard
- BridgeAdam Kellner
- DestinationPhilip Riise Hansen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeWayne Arthurs
- BridgeJean Rene Lisnard
- BridgeAdam Kellner
- DestinationPhilip Riise Hansen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDaniel Vacek
- BridgeJean Rene Lisnard
- BridgeAdam Kellner
- DestinationPhilip Riise Hansen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeJaak Poldma
- BridgeAdam Kellner
- DestinationPhilip Riise Hansen
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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