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
Bruno Soares
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 5 meetings41April 26, 1993 — August 16, 1999View Pete Sampras × Vincent Spadea →02 BridgeOpen career →Vincent Spadea
1 meeting10September 13, 2004View Vincent Spadea × Alejandro Falla →03 BridgeOpen career →Alejandro Falla
1 meeting10April 5, 2013View Alejandro Falla × Ariel Behar →04 BridgeOpen career →Ariel Behar
1 meeting01July 8, 2011View Ariel Behar × Bruno Soares →05 DestinationOpen career →Bruno Soares
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgeAriel Behar
- DestinationBruno Soares
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgeAriel Behar
- DestinationBruno Soares
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Goldstein
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgeAriel Behar
- DestinationBruno Soares
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeMauricio Echazu
- BridgeAriel Behar
- DestinationBruno Soares
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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