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
Bogdan Borza
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 meeting10February 3, 2018View Bogdan Borza × Christophe Tholl →02 BridgeOpen career →Christophe Tholl
1 meeting01April 4, 2014View Christophe Tholl × Mikael Torpegaard →03 BridgeOpen career →Mikael Torpegaard
1 meeting01July 15, 2016View Mikael Torpegaard × Jarkko Nieminen →04 BridgeOpen career →Jarkko Nieminen
2 meetings02January 14, 2002 — March 18, 2002View Jarkko Nieminen × 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.
- OriginBogdan Borza
- BridgeChristophe Tholl
- BridgeMarius Copil
- BridgeAndreas Vinciguerra
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBogdan Borza
- BridgeChristophe Tholl
- BridgeMarius Copil
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBogdan Borza
- BridgeChristophe Tholl
- BridgeMarius Copil
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBogdan Borza
- BridgeChristophe Tholl
- BridgeMarius Copil
- BridgeRoger Federer
- 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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