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
Assen Dishkov
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 8 meetings53February 5, 1990 — January 17, 1994View Pete Sampras × Ivan Lendl →02 BridgeOpen career →Ivan Lendl
1 meeting10October 20, 1980View Ivan Lendl × Thierry Stevaux →03 BridgeOpen career →Thierry Stevaux
1 meeting10December 14, 1981View Thierry Stevaux × Assen Dishkov →04 DestinationOpen career →Assen Dishkov
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Mayotte
- BridgeThierry Stevaux
- DestinationAssen Dishkov
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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