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
Mustafa Azkara
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 3 meetings30October 21, 1996 — June 25, 2001View Pete Sampras × Sargis Sargsian →02 BridgeOpen career →Sargis Sargsian
1 meeting10April 27, 2001View Sargis Sargsian × Iurie Gorban →03 BridgeOpen career →Iurie Gorban
1 meeting01July 20, 2001View Iurie Gorban × Mustafa Azkara →04 DestinationOpen career →Mustafa Azkara
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
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeSolon Peppas
- DestinationMustafa Azkara
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAlbert Portas
- BridgeSolon Peppas
- DestinationMustafa Azkara
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAlberto Martin
- BridgeSolon Peppas
- DestinationMustafa Azkara
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKristian Pless
- BridgeSolon Peppas
- DestinationMustafa Azkara
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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