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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
Felipe Rivera
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →2 meetings20January 31, 1992 — April 13, 1992View Pete Sampras × Martin Jaite →02 BridgeOpen career →Martin Jaite
1 meeting01November 4, 1991View Martin Jaite × Felipe Rivera →03 DestinationOpen career →Felipe Rivera
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarel Novacek
- DestinationFelipe Rivera
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- DestinationFelipe Rivera
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJean Philippe Fleurian
- DestinationFelipe Rivera
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJavier Frana
- DestinationFelipe Rivera
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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