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
Samir Iftikhar
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 10 meetings91June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Pete Sampras × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
2 meetings11June 12, 2006 — June 25, 2007View Jonas Bjorkman × Jimmy Wang →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Wang
1 meeting10September 18, 2015View Jimmy Wang × Samir Iftikhar →04 DestinationOpen career →Samir Iftikhar
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
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- DestinationSamir Iftikhar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- DestinationSamir Iftikhar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- BridgeJimmy Wang
- DestinationSamir Iftikhar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBarry Cowan
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- DestinationSamir Iftikhar
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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