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
Ross Hutchins
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 1 meeting01February 2, 2009View Ross Hutchins × Kristof Vliegen →02 BridgeOpen career →Kristof Vliegen
1 meeting01October 25, 2004View Kristof Vliegen × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
34 meetings1420May 15, 1989 — August 26, 2002View Andre Agassi × Pete Sampras →04 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
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.
- OriginRoss Hutchins
- BridgeKristof Vliegen
- BridgeRichard Krajicek
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRoss Hutchins
- BridgeKristof Vliegen
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRoss Hutchins
- BridgeKristof Vliegen
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRoss Hutchins
- BridgeKristof Vliegen
- BridgeYevgeny Kafelnikov
- DestinationPete Sampras
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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