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
Rok Jarc
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 3 meetings21January 13, 1997 — May 21, 2000View Pete Sampras × Dominik Hrbaty →02 BridgeOpen career →Dominik Hrbaty
1 meeting10April 23, 2007View Dominik Hrbaty × Slimane Saoudi →03 BridgeOpen career →Slimane Saoudi
1 meeting10April 7, 2006View Slimane Saoudi × Rok Jarc →04 DestinationOpen career →Rok Jarc
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeSlimane Saoudi
- DestinationRok Jarc
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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