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
Anton Tsymbalov
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 meeting01February 7, 2003View Anton Tsymbalov × Wei Jen Cheng →02 BridgeOpen career →Wei Jen Cheng
1 meeting01February 12, 1999View Wei Jen Cheng × Joseph Lizardo →03 BridgeOpen career →Joseph Lizardo
2 meetings11March 25, 1994 — February 3, 1995View Joseph Lizardo × Shuzo Matsuoka →04 BridgeOpen career →Shuzo Matsuoka
5 meetings14July 22, 1991 — June 26, 1995View Shuzo Matsuoka × 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.
- OriginAnton Tsymbalov
- BridgeWei Jen Cheng
- BridgeMichael Brown B395
- BridgeKarel Novacek
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAnton Tsymbalov
- BridgeWei Jen Cheng
- BridgeSuwandi Suwandi
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAnton Tsymbalov
- BridgeWei Jen Cheng
- BridgeSuwandi Suwandi
- BridgeJeff Tarango
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAnton Tsymbalov
- BridgeWei Jen Cheng
- BridgeSuwandi Suwandi
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- 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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