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
Marcelo Melo
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 meeting10May 7, 2010View Marcelo Melo × Martin Cuevas →02 BridgeOpen career →Martin Cuevas
1 meeting01March 5, 2010View Martin Cuevas × Jhonson Garcia →03 BridgeOpen career →Jhonson Garcia
1 meeting10July 16, 1999View Jhonson Garcia × Juan Antonio Marin →04 BridgeOpen career →Juan Antonio Marin
1 meeting01May 24, 1999View Juan Antonio Marin × 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.
- OriginMarcelo Melo
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMarcelo Melo
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMarcelo Melo
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- BridgePaul Capdeville
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMarcelo Melo
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- BridgePaul Capdeville
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- 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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