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
Pablo Bianchi
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 5 meetings41January 2, 1989 — November 9, 1998View Pete Sampras × Jason Stoltenberg →02 BridgeOpen career →Jason Stoltenberg
1 meeting10April 27, 1998View Jason Stoltenberg × Luis Horna →03 BridgeOpen career →Luis Horna
1 meeting10July 12, 2002View Luis Horna × Pablo Bianchi →04 DestinationOpen career →Pablo Bianchi
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
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeLuis Horna
- DestinationPablo Bianchi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSebastien Lareau
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationPablo Bianchi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJerome Golmard
- BridgeLuis Horna
- DestinationPablo Bianchi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHicham Arazi
- BridgeLuis Horna
- DestinationPablo Bianchi
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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