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
Vaja Uzakov
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 4 meetings40October 19, 1992 — October 12, 1998View Pete Sampras × Jeff Tarango →02 BridgeOpen career →Jeff Tarango
1 meeting10April 14, 1997View Jeff Tarango × Takao Suzuki →03 BridgeOpen career →Takao Suzuki
1 meeting10May 8, 2009View Takao Suzuki × Vaja Uzakov →04 DestinationOpen career →Vaja Uzakov
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
- BridgeBrett Steven
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- DestinationVaja Uzakov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeEric Taino
- DestinationVaja Uzakov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeEric Taino
- DestinationVaja Uzakov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- DestinationVaja Uzakov
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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