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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
Nino Serdarusic
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 OriginOpen career →3 meetings30January 19, 1998 — June 12, 2000View Pete Sampras × Davide Sanguinetti →02 BridgeOpen career →Davide Sanguinetti
1 meeting10April 10, 2006View Davide Sanguinetti × Teymuraz Gabashvili →03 BridgeOpen career →Teymuraz Gabashvili
1 meeting10July 18, 2016View Teymuraz Gabashvili × Nino Serdarusic →04 DestinationOpen career →Nino Serdarusic
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
- BridgeSargis Sargsian
- BridgeTeymuraz Gabashvili
- DestinationNino Serdarusic
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- BridgeTeymuraz Gabashvili
- DestinationNino Serdarusic
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- BridgeTeymuraz Gabashvili
- DestinationNino Serdarusic
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeTeymuraz Gabashvili
- DestinationNino Serdarusic
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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