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
Juan Martin Aranguren
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01February 1, 2010View Juan Martin Aranguren × David Marrero →02 BridgeOpen career →David Marrero
1 meeting01May 3, 2010View David Marrero × Alberto Martin →03 BridgeOpen career →Alberto Martin
1 meeting10August 6, 2001View Alberto Martin × Pete Sampras →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJuan Martin Aranguren
- BridgeFlorent Serra
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJuan Martin Aranguren
- BridgeFlorent Serra
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJuan Martin Aranguren
- BridgeFlorent Serra
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJuan Martin Aranguren
- BridgeFlorent Serra
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- 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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