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
Luca Preda
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 meeting01February 3, 2024View Luca Preda × Ioannis Xilas →02 BridgeOpen career →Ioannis Xilas
1 meeting01September 14, 2024View Ioannis Xilas × Novak Djokovic →03 BridgeOpen career →Novak Djokovic
2 meetings11October 28, 2007 — March 3, 2008View Novak Djokovic × Fabrice Santoro →04 BridgeOpen career →Fabrice Santoro
7 meetings34May 13, 1991 — March 11, 2002View Fabrice Santoro × 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.
- OriginLuca Preda
- BridgeIoannis Xilas
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeAlex Calatrava
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuca Preda
- BridgeIoannis Xilas
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuca Preda
- BridgeIoannis Xilas
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeTim Henman
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuca Preda
- BridgeIoannis Xilas
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- 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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