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
Marco Filippeschi
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 2 meetings02June 19, 1989 — August 21, 1989View Marco Filippeschi × Paolo Pambianco →02 BridgeOpen career →Paolo Pambianco
1 meeting01February 5, 1990View Paolo Pambianco × Horst Skoff →03 BridgeOpen career →Horst Skoff
3 meetings03May 6, 1991 — April 26, 1993View Horst Skoff × 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.
- OriginMarco Filippeschi
- BridgePaolo Pambianco
- BridgeGuillermo Perez Roldan
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMarco Filippeschi
- BridgePaolo Pambianco
- BridgeRenzo Furlan
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMarco Filippeschi
- BridgePaolo Pambianco
- BridgeSlava Dosedel
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMarco Filippeschi
- BridgePaolo Pambianco
- BridgeAndrea Gaudenzi
- 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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