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
Stephen Nugent
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 meeting01April 4, 2003View Stephen Nugent × Mohamed Mamoun →02 BridgeOpen career →Mohamed Mamoun
1 meeting01April 4, 2003View Mohamed Mamoun × John Doran →03 BridgeOpen career →John Doran
2 meetings02July 16, 1999 — April 27, 2001View John Doran × Kristian Pless →04 BridgeOpen career →Kristian Pless
1 meeting01August 26, 2002View Kristian Pless × Pete Sampras →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginStephen Nugent
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginStephen Nugent
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeKristian Pless
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginStephen Nugent
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeIrakli Labadze
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginStephen Nugent
- BridgeMohamed Mamoun
- BridgeIrakli Labadze
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- 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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