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
Jack Loutit
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 meeting10February 1, 2025View Jack Loutit × Rowland Phillips →02 BridgeOpen career →Rowland Phillips
1 meeting01March 6, 2020View Rowland Phillips × Marcelo Arevalo →03 BridgeOpen career →Marcelo Arevalo
1 meeting01February 8, 2008View Marcelo Arevalo × 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 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJack Loutit
- BridgeBlaise Bicknell
- BridgeMarcelo Arevalo
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- 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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