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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
Luis Carlos Alvarez Valdes
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
01Open career → 1 meeting10September 16, 2022View Luis Carlos Alvarez Valdes × Andrej Nedic →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrej Nedic
1 meeting01September 13, 2025View Andrej Nedic × Andres Andrade →03 BridgeOpen career →Andres Andrade
1 meeting10February 7, 2026View Andres Andrade × James Duckworth →04 BridgeOpen career →James Duckworth
1 meeting01January 18, 2016View James Duckworth × Lleyton Hewitt →05 BridgeOpen career →Lleyton Hewitt
9 meetings54August 17, 1998 — March 11, 2002View Lleyton Hewitt × 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.
- BridgeAndrej Nedic
- BridgePetr Nesterov
- BridgeMarcelo Arevalo
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrej Nedic
- BridgeAnton Shepp
- BridgeMirza Basic
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrej Nedic
- BridgeMaximilian Marterer
- BridgeElias Ymer
- BridgePaul Henri Mathieu
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrej Nedic
- BridgeMaximilian Marterer
- BridgeHyeon Chung
- 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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