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
Robert Dolan
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 2 meetings20June 12, 1989 — October 14, 1991View Pete Sampras × Tom Nijssen →02 BridgeOpen career →Tom Nijssen
1 meeting10June 10, 1988View Tom Nijssen × Abou Berthe →03 BridgeOpen career →Abou Berthe
1 meeting01May 5, 1989View Abou Berthe × Robert Dolan →04 DestinationOpen career →Robert Dolan
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
- BridgeTom Nijssen
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- DestinationRobert Dolan
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- DestinationRobert Dolan
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRonald Agenor
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- DestinationRobert Dolan
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRick Leach
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- DestinationRobert Dolan
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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