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
William Ward
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10March 16, 1990View Pete Sampras × Jean Philippe Fleurian →02 BridgeOpen career →Jean Philippe Fleurian
2 meetings11April 8, 1996 — April 7, 1997View Jean Philippe Fleurian × Oleg Ogorodov →03 BridgeOpen career →Oleg Ogorodov
1 meeting10February 7, 2003View Oleg Ogorodov × Febi Widhiyanto →04 BridgeOpen career →Febi Widhiyanto
1 meeting10April 9, 2004View Febi Widhiyanto × William Ward →05 DestinationOpen career →William Ward
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrei Chesnokov
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeFebi Widhiyanto
- DestinationWilliam Ward
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Haarhuis
- BridgeVadim Kutsenko
- BridgeFebi Widhiyanto
- DestinationWilliam Ward
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJavier Frana
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeFebi Widhiyanto
- DestinationWilliam Ward
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNeil Borwick
- BridgeGouichi Motomura
- BridgeFebi Widhiyanto
- DestinationWilliam Ward
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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