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
Michel Borfiga
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 1 meeting10May 11, 1992View Pete Sampras × Goran Prpic →02 BridgeOpen career →Goran Prpic
1 meeting10September 25, 1989View Goran Prpic × Xavier Daufresne →03 BridgeOpen career →Xavier Daufresne
1 meeting10June 16, 1989View Xavier Daufresne × Johnny Goudenbour →04 BridgeOpen career →Johnny Goudenbour
1 meeting01May 6, 1983View Johnny Goudenbour × Michel Borfiga →05 DestinationOpen career →Michel Borfiga
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
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeJoao Cunha Silva
- BridgeJohnny Goudenbour
- DestinationMichel Borfiga
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeJoao Cunha Silva
- BridgeJohnny Goudenbour
- DestinationMichel Borfiga
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeBart Wuyts
- BridgeJohnny Goudenbour
- DestinationMichel Borfiga
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeFilip Dewulf
- BridgeJohnny Goudenbour
- DestinationMichel Borfiga
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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