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
Michel Borfiga
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 meeting10May 6, 1983View Michel Borfiga × Marcos Klensch →02 BridgeOpen career →Marcos Klensch
2 meetings02September 16, 1977 — May 6, 1983View Marcos Klensch × Bernard Balleret →03 BridgeOpen career →Bernard Balleret
1 meeting01June 15, 1984View Bernard Balleret × Andrei Chesnokov →04 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Chesnokov
2 meetings02May 9, 1994 — December 1, 1995View Andrei Chesnokov × 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.
- OriginMichel Borfiga
- BridgeMarcos Klensch
- BridgeBernard Balleret
- BridgeNuno Marques
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMichel Borfiga
- BridgeMarcos Klensch
- BridgeLuis Borfiga
- BridgeYannick Noah
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMichel Borfiga
- BridgeJohnny Goudenbour
- BridgeJerome Seguin
- BridgeDinu Pescariu
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMichel Borfiga
- BridgeJohnny Goudenbour
- BridgeAnders Haseth
- BridgeByron Black
- 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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