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 Oger
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 11 meetings74January 18, 1993 — August 10, 1998View Pete Sampras × Magnus Larsson →02 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Larsson
1 meeting10February 24, 2003View Magnus Larsson × Frederik Nielsen →03 BridgeOpen career →Frederik Nielsen
1 meeting10March 4, 2011View Frederik Nielsen × Thomas Oger →04 DestinationOpen career →Thomas Oger
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
- BridgeGeorge Bastl
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- DestinationThomas Oger
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeIllya Marchenko
- DestinationThomas Oger
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeGrigor Dimitrov
- DestinationThomas Oger
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeCarlos Moya
- BridgeIllya Marchenko
- DestinationThomas Oger
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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