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
Mikk Irdoja
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 meeting01July 15, 2005View Mikk Irdoja × Adam Chadaj →02 BridgeOpen career →Adam Chadaj
1 meeting10August 1, 2005View Adam Chadaj × Alessio Di Mauro →03 BridgeOpen career →Alessio Di Mauro
1 meeting01May 2, 2005View Alessio Di Mauro × 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.
- OriginMikk Irdoja
- BridgeAdam Chadaj
- BridgeAlessio Di Mauro
- BridgeTim Henman
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMikk Irdoja
- BridgeAdam Chadaj
- BridgeAlessio Di Mauro
- BridgeFranco Squillari
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMikk Irdoja
- BridgeAdam Chadaj
- BridgeAlessio Di Mauro
- BridgeGalo Blanco
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMikk Irdoja
- BridgeAdam Chadaj
- BridgeAlessio Di Mauro
- BridgeNicolas Kiefer
- 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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