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
Gillian Osmont
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01February 2, 2024View Gillian Osmont × Diego Duran →02 BridgeOpen career →Diego Duran
1 meeting01September 16, 2023View Diego Duran × Osgar Ohoisin →03 BridgeOpen career →Osgar Ohoisin
1 meeting01September 16, 2023View Osgar Ohoisin × Marcelo Arevalo →04 BridgeOpen career →Marcelo Arevalo
1 meeting01February 8, 2008View Marcelo Arevalo × Ramon Delgado →05 BridgeOpen career →Ramon Delgado
3 meetings12April 27, 1998 — March 1, 1999View Ramon Delgado × Pete Sampras →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginGillian Osmont
- BridgeDiego Duran
- BridgeAlexis Klegou
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeAgustin Calleri
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGillian Osmont
- BridgeDiego Duran
- BridgeAlexis Klegou
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeJuan Ignacio Chela
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGillian Osmont
- BridgeDiego Duran
- BridgeAlexis Klegou
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGillian Osmont
- BridgeDiego Duran
- BridgeAlexis Klegou
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- 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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