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
Christian Saravia
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 3 meetings30November 22, 1999 — August 6, 2001View Pete Sampras × Nicolas Lapentti →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Lapentti
1 meeting10February 4, 2000View Nicolas Lapentti × Pablo Gonzalez →03 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Gonzalez
1 meeting10September 22, 2006View Pablo Gonzalez × Jesus Francisco Felix →04 BridgeOpen career →Jesus Francisco Felix
1 meeting10March 6, 2009View Jesus Francisco Felix × Christian Saravia →05 DestinationOpen career →Christian Saravia
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAgustin Calleri
- BridgePablo Gonzalez
- BridgeJesus Francisco Felix
- DestinationChristian Saravia
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMariano Puerta
- BridgePablo Gonzalez
- BridgeJesus Francisco Felix
- DestinationChristian Saravia
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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