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
Peter Torebko
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 34 meetings2014May 15, 1989 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Andre Agassi →02 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
1 meeting01June 7, 2004View Andre Agassi × Igor Andreev →03 BridgeOpen career →Igor Andreev
1 meeting10September 19, 2011View Igor Andreev × Peter Torebko →04 DestinationOpen career →Peter Torebko
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
- BridgeWayne Arthurs
- BridgeIgor Andreev
- DestinationPeter Torebko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeIgor Andreev
- DestinationPeter Torebko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeIgor Andreev
- DestinationPeter Torebko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeIgor Andreev
- DestinationPeter Torebko
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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