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
Johann Coles
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 meeting01July 8, 2011View Johann Coles × Chris Brandi →02 BridgeOpen career →Chris Brandi
1 meeting01March 4, 2011View Chris Brandi × Diego Galeano →03 BridgeOpen career →Diego Galeano
1 meeting01March 6, 2009View Diego Galeano × Devin Mullings →04 BridgeOpen career →Devin Mullings
1 meeting01August 11, 2008View Devin Mullings × Agustin Calleri →05 BridgeOpen career →Agustin Calleri
1 meeting01August 28, 2000View Agustin Calleri × 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.
- OriginJohann Coles
- BridgeChris Brandi
- BridgeDiego Galeano
- BridgeDevin Mullings
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJohann Coles
- BridgeChris Brandi
- BridgeDiego Galeano
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJohann Coles
- BridgeChris Brandi
- BridgeDiego Galeano
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJohann Coles
- BridgeChris Brandi
- BridgeDiego Galeano
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- BridgeRoger Federer
- 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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