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
Aymeric Mara
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 10, 2012View Aymeric Mara × Jeson Patrombon →02 BridgeOpen career →Jeson Patrombon
1 meeting01March 6, 2020View Jeson Patrombon × Stefanos Tsitsipas →03 BridgeOpen career →Stefanos Tsitsipas
4 meetings22January 14, 2019 — November 11, 2019View Stefanos Tsitsipas × Roger Federer →04 BridgeOpen career →Roger Federer
1 meeting10June 25, 2001View Roger Federer × 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.
- OriginAymeric Mara
- BridgeJeson Patrombon
- BridgeStefanos Tsitsipas
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAymeric Mara
- BridgeJeson Patrombon
- BridgeTi Chen
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAymeric Mara
- BridgeJeson Patrombon
- BridgeTi Chen
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginAymeric Mara
- BridgeJeson Patrombon
- BridgeJimmy Wang
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- 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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