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
Carlos Taborga
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 10, 2012View Carlos Taborga × Roberto Cid →02 BridgeOpen career →Roberto Cid
1 meeting01September 18, 2015View Roberto Cid × Benjamin Becker →03 BridgeOpen career →Benjamin Becker
1 meeting10August 28, 2006View Benjamin Becker × Andre Agassi →04 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
34 meetings1420May 15, 1989 — August 26, 2002View Andre Agassi × 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.
- OriginCarlos Taborga
- BridgeRoberto Cid
- BridgeBenjamin Becker
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginCarlos Taborga
- BridgeRoberto Cid
- BridgeBenjamin Becker
- BridgeJiri Novak
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginCarlos Taborga
- BridgeRoberto Cid
- BridgeBenjamin Becker
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginCarlos Taborga
- BridgeRoberto Cid
- BridgeBenjamin Becker
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- 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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