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
Nicolas Alvarez Varona
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 11 meetings92August 27, 1990 — March 9, 1998View Pete Sampras × Thomas Muster →02 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Muster
1 meeting01October 24, 2011View Thomas Muster × Dominic Thiem →03 BridgeOpen career →Dominic Thiem
2 meetings20May 27, 2019 — October 24, 2022View Dominic Thiem × Tommy Paul →04 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Paul
1 meeting10October 10, 2022View Tommy Paul × Nicolas Alvarez Varona →05 DestinationOpen career →Nicolas Alvarez Varona
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
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeBenjamin Becker
- BridgeTommy Paul
- DestinationNicolas Alvarez Varona
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeTommy Paul
- DestinationNicolas Alvarez Varona
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeGilles Muller
- BridgeTommy Paul
- DestinationNicolas Alvarez Varona
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeGuillermo Garcia Lopez
- BridgeMarco Trungelliti
- DestinationNicolas Alvarez Varona
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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