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
Horia Tecau
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 4 meetings40July 18, 1988 — August 3, 1998View Pete Sampras × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
3 meetings21January 19, 1998 — March 12, 2001View Gianluca Pozzi × Arnaud Clement →03 BridgeOpen career →Arnaud Clement
1 meeting10February 8, 2008View Arnaud Clement × Horia Tecau →04 DestinationOpen career →Horia Tecau
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
- BridgeMark Woodforde
- BridgeArnaud Clement
- DestinationHoria Tecau
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Haarhuis
- BridgeArnaud Clement
- DestinationHoria Tecau
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeArnaud Clement
- DestinationHoria Tecau
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePetr Korda
- BridgeArnaud Clement
- DestinationHoria Tecau
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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