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
Zsolt Tatar
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 7 meetings61April 4, 1994 — August 7, 2000View Pete Sampras × Tim Henman →02 BridgeOpen career →Tim Henman
1 meeting10April 9, 2004View Tim Henman × Gilles Kremer →03 BridgeOpen career →Gilles Kremer
1 meeting10May 3, 2002View Gilles Kremer × Zsolt Tatar →04 DestinationOpen career →Zsolt Tatar
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeGilles Kremer
- DestinationZsolt Tatar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarol Beck
- BridgeGilles Kremer
- DestinationZsolt Tatar
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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