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
Botic van de Zandschulp
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 34 meetings2014May 15, 1989 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Andre Agassi →02 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
3 meetings21October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Andre Agassi × Feliciano Lopez →03 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01June 27, 2022View Feliciano Lopez × Botic van de Zandschulp →04 DestinationOpen career →Botic van de Zandschulp
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationBotic van de Zandschulp
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationBotic van de Zandschulp
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationBotic van de Zandschulp
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationBotic van de Zandschulp
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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