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
Chris Brandi
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 meetings20August 28, 2000 — July 29, 2002View Pete Sampras × Hyung Taik Lee →02 BridgeOpen career →Hyung Taik Lee
1 meeting01August 11, 2008View Hyung Taik Lee × Rafael Arevalo →03 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Arevalo
2 meetings20April 6, 2012 — January 31, 2014View Rafael Arevalo × Diego Galeano →04 BridgeOpen career →Diego Galeano
1 meeting10March 4, 2011View Diego Galeano × Chris Brandi →05 DestinationOpen career →Chris Brandi
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
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- BridgeAlexander Blom
- BridgeDiego Galeano
- DestinationChris Brandi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAgustin Calleri
- BridgeDevin Mullings
- BridgeDiego Galeano
- DestinationChris Brandi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeDevin Mullings
- BridgeDiego Galeano
- DestinationChris Brandi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- BridgeDiego Galeano
- DestinationChris Brandi
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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