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
Francisco Yim Kim
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 meeting01March 4, 2016View Francisco Yim Kim × Ricardo Rodriguez →02 BridgeOpen career →Ricardo Rodriguez
1 meeting01April 7, 2018View Ricardo Rodriguez × Pablo Cuevas →03 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Cuevas
1 meeting10March 27, 2008View Pablo Cuevas × Vincent Spadea →04 BridgeOpen career →Vincent Spadea
5 meetings14April 26, 1993 — August 16, 1999View Vincent Spadea × 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.
- OriginFrancisco Yim Kim
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFrancisco Yim Kim
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFrancisco Yim Kim
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeAgustin Calleri
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFrancisco Yim Kim
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeJuan Ignacio Chela
- 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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