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
Alexander Merino
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 3, 2017View Alexander Merino × Gonzalo Escobar →02 BridgeOpen career →Gonzalo Escobar
1 meeting01July 17, 2015View Gonzalo Escobar × Victor Estrella →03 BridgeOpen career →Victor Estrella
1 meeting01September 19, 2003View Victor Estrella × Ramon Delgado →04 BridgeOpen career →Ramon Delgado
3 meetings12April 27, 1998 — March 1, 1999View Ramon Delgado × 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.
- OriginAlexander Merino
- BridgeGonzalo Escobar
- BridgeMarco Chiudinelli
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlexander Merino
- BridgeGonzalo Escobar
- BridgeMarco Chiudinelli
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlexander Merino
- BridgeGonzalo Escobar
- BridgeMarco Chiudinelli
- BridgeJiri Novak
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAlexander Merino
- BridgeGonzalo Escobar
- BridgeMarco Chiudinelli
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- 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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