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
Radek Stepanek
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 4 meetings40March 17, 1997 — June 25, 2001View Pete Sampras × Francisco Clavet →02 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Clavet
1 meeting01July 8, 2002View Francisco Clavet × Radek Stepanek →03 DestinationOpen career →Radek Stepanek
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
- BridgeJeff Tarango
- DestinationRadek Stepanek
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- DestinationRadek Stepanek
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRadek Stepanek
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTodd Martin
- DestinationRadek Stepanek
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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