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
Howard Joffe
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
2 meetings11July 19, 1993 — June 6, 1994View Gianluca Pozzi × David Nainkin →03 BridgeOpen career →David Nainkin
1 meeting01April 3, 1995View David Nainkin × Howard Joffe →04 DestinationOpen career →Howard Joffe
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJoern Renzenbrink
- DestinationHoward Joffe
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJean Philippe Fleurian
- BridgeDavid Nainkin
- DestinationHoward Joffe
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMark Woodforde
- BridgeDavid Nainkin
- DestinationHoward Joffe
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMark Woodforde
- BridgeJoern Renzenbrink
- DestinationHoward Joffe
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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