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
Zoltan Boroczky
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 1 meeting01September 24, 1999View Zoltan Boroczky × Thomas Larsen →02 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Larsen
1 meeting01March 1, 1999View Thomas Larsen × Fabrice Santoro →03 BridgeOpen career →Fabrice Santoro
7 meetings34May 13, 1991 — March 11, 2002View Fabrice Santoro × Pete Sampras →04 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
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.
- OriginZoltan Boroczky
- BridgeThomas Larsen
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginZoltan Boroczky
- BridgeThomas Larsen
- BridgeKarol Kucera
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginZoltan Boroczky
- BridgeThomas Larsen
- BridgeDinu Pescariu
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginZoltan Boroczky
- BridgeThomas Larsen
- BridgeCarlos Moya
- DestinationPete Sampras
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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