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
Pete Sampras
reaches
Amaury Gomez
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 2 meetings20January 15, 2001 — January 14, 2002View Pete Sampras × Juan Ignacio Chela →02 BridgeOpen career →Juan Ignacio Chela
1 meeting10February 27, 2012View Juan Ignacio Chela × Cesar Ramirez →03 BridgeOpen career →Cesar Ramirez
1 meeting10July 9, 2010View Cesar Ramirez × Jose Benitez →04 BridgeOpen career →Jose Benitez
1 meeting10July 10, 2009View Jose Benitez × Amaury Gomez →05 DestinationOpen career →Amaury Gomez
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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