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
Sven Koehler
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 17 meetings125October 22, 1990 — October 27, 1997View Pete Sampras × Petr Korda →02 BridgeOpen career →Petr Korda
1 meeting10February 7, 1997View Petr Korda × Mahesh Bhupathi →03 BridgeOpen career →Mahesh Bhupathi
1 meeting10February 3, 1995View Mahesh Bhupathi × Sven Koehler →04 DestinationOpen career →Sven Koehler
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
- BridgeJavier Sanchez
- BridgeMahesh Bhupathi
- DestinationSven Koehler
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBrett Steven
- BridgeChia Yen Tsai
- DestinationSven Koehler
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBrett Steven
- BridgeWei Ju Chen
- DestinationSven Koehler
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeMahesh Bhupathi
- DestinationSven Koehler
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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