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
Thomas Haug
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 4 meetings31October 29, 1990 — January 18, 1993View Pete Sampras × Carl Uwe Steeb →02 BridgeOpen career →Carl Uwe Steeb
1 meeting10May 6, 1996View Carl Uwe Steeb × Kim Tiilikainen →03 BridgeOpen career →Kim Tiilikainen
1 meeting10July 11, 2003View Kim Tiilikainen × Thomas Haug →04 DestinationOpen career →Thomas Haug
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
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeKim Tiilikainen
- DestinationThomas Haug
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeKim Tiilikainen
- DestinationThomas Haug
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrea Gaudenzi
- BridgeKim Tiilikainen
- DestinationThomas Haug
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeWayne Black
- BridgeKim Tiilikainen
- DestinationThomas Haug
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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