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
Sergei Yaroshenko
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 5 meetings50November 8, 1993 — January 19, 1998View Pete Sampras × Magnus Gustafsson →02 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Gustafsson
1 meeting10August 21, 1995View Magnus Gustafsson × Goran Oresic →03 BridgeOpen career →Goran Oresic
1 meeting10April 5, 1996View Goran Oresic × Sergei Yaroshenko →04 DestinationOpen career →Sergei Yaroshenko
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
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationSergei Yaroshenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeGergely Kisgyorgy
- DestinationSergei Yaroshenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSlava Dosedel
- BridgeGoran Oresic
- DestinationSergei Yaroshenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJim Courier
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- DestinationSergei Yaroshenko
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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