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
Derek Farren
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 meeting01May 1, 1992View Derek Farren × Tasos Bavelas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tasos Bavelas
1 meeting01June 12, 1987View Tasos Bavelas × Thomas Muster →03 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Muster
11 meetings29August 27, 1990 — March 9, 1998View Thomas Muster × 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.
- OriginDerek Farren
- BridgeTasos Bavelas
- BridgeMark Koevermans
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDerek Farren
- BridgeTasos Bavelas
- BridgeHorst Skoff
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDerek Farren
- BridgeTasos Bavelas
- BridgeGuillermo Perez Roldan
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDerek Farren
- BridgeTasos Bavelas
- BridgeSergi Bruguera
- 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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