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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
Ignacio Parisca
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 OriginOpen career →8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
1 meeting10October 24, 2011View Tommy Haas × Aljaz Bedene →03 BridgeOpen career →Aljaz Bedene
1 meeting10September 16, 2022View Aljaz Bedene × Kristjan Tamm →04 BridgeOpen career →Kristjan Tamm
1 meeting01March 15, 2024View Kristjan Tamm × Sina Moghimi →05 BridgeOpen career →Sina Moghimi
1 meeting01March 15, 2024View Sina Moghimi × Oliver Ojakaar →06 BridgeOpen career →Oliver Ojakaar
1 meeting10January 31, 2025View Oliver Ojakaar × Ignacio Parisca →07 DestinationOpen career →Ignacio Parisca
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeColeman Wong
- BridgeMarkus Molder
- DestinationIgnacio Parisca
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeCourtney John Lock
- BridgeColeman Wong
- BridgeMarkus Molder
- DestinationIgnacio Parisca
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeColeman Wong
- BridgeMarkus Molder
- DestinationIgnacio Parisca
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgeM Abid Ali Khan Akbar
- BridgeHamid Reza Nadaf
- BridgeOliver Ojakaar
- DestinationIgnacio Parisca
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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