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
Luis Diaz Barriga
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 meeting01October 28, 2011View Luis Diaz Barriga × Robert Farah →02 BridgeOpen career →Robert Farah
1 meeting10April 30, 2012View Robert Farah × Nikolay Davydenko →03 BridgeOpen career →Nikolay Davydenko
1 meeting01January 1, 2001View Nikolay Davydenko × Byron Black →04 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
6 meetings06June 21, 1993 — March 4, 2002View Byron Black × 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.
- OriginLuis Diaz Barriga
- BridgeRobert Farah
- BridgeNikolay Davydenko
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuis Diaz Barriga
- BridgeRobert Farah
- BridgeNikolay Davydenko
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuis Diaz Barriga
- BridgeRobert Farah
- BridgeNikolay Davydenko
- BridgeTodd Martin
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuis Diaz Barriga
- BridgeRobert Farah
- BridgeNikolay Davydenko
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- 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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