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
Alex Barrena
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01February 23, 2026View Alex Barrena × Andrea Pellegrino →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrea Pellegrino
1 meeting01July 16, 2026View Andrea Pellegrino × Andrey Rublev →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrey Rublev
1 meeting10May 17, 2015View Andrey Rublev × Jarkko Nieminen →04 BridgeOpen career →Jarkko Nieminen
2 meetings02January 14, 2002 — March 18, 2002View Jarkko Nieminen × Pete Sampras →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAlex Barrena
- BridgeAndrea Pellegrino
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlex Barrena
- BridgeAndrea Pellegrino
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlex Barrena
- BridgeAndrea Pellegrino
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlex Barrena
- BridgeVit Kopriva
- BridgeCem Ilkel
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- 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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