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
Pete Sampras
reaches
Alexander Tavkhelidze
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 11 meetings74January 18, 1993 — August 10, 1998View Pete Sampras × Magnus Larsson →02 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Larsson
1 meeting10June 17, 2002View Magnus Larsson × Wesley Moodie →03 BridgeOpen career →Wesley Moodie
1 meeting10April 7, 2006View Wesley Moodie × Lado Chikhladze →04 BridgeOpen career →Lado Chikhladze
1 meeting01July 16, 2004View Lado Chikhladze × Omar Hedayet →05 BridgeOpen career →Omar Hedayet
1 meeting10July 10, 2009View Omar Hedayet × Alexander Tavkhelidze →06 DestinationOpen career →Alexander Tavkhelidze
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJan Kroslak
- BridgeIvaylo Traykov
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHarel Levy
- BridgeIvaylo Traykov
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKristian Pless
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
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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