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
Joao Pedro Sorgi
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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
1 meeting10May 1, 2000View Gianluca Pozzi × Michael Russell →03 BridgeOpen career →Michael Russell
1 meeting01May 26, 2014View Michael Russell × Alejandro Gonzalez →04 BridgeOpen career →Alejandro Gonzalez
1 meeting10April 6, 2018View Alejandro Gonzalez × Joao Pedro Sorgi →05 DestinationOpen career →Joao Pedro Sorgi
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeThomas Muster
- BridgePhilipp Kohlschreiber
- BridgeJose Hernandez
- DestinationJoao Pedro Sorgi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeMichael Russell
- BridgeAlejandro Gonzalez
- DestinationJoao Pedro Sorgi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeRadek Stepanek
- BridgeAlejandro Gonzalez
- DestinationJoao Pedro Sorgi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJeff Tarango
- BridgeRadek Stepanek
- BridgeAlejandro Gonzalez
- DestinationJoao Pedro Sorgi
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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