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
Cristian Rodriguez
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20August 9, 1999 — March 11, 2002View Pete Sampras × Rainer Schuettler →02 BridgeOpen career →Rainer Schuettler
1 meeting10July 26, 2010View Rainer Schuettler × Horacio Zeballos →03 BridgeOpen career →Horacio Zeballos
1 meeting10September 14, 2018View Horacio Zeballos × Nicolas Mejia →04 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Mejia
1 meeting10January 31, 2025View Nicolas Mejia × Xavier Lawrence →05 BridgeOpen career →Xavier Lawrence
1 meeting01February 2, 2018View Xavier Lawrence × Cristian Rodriguez →06 DestinationOpen career →Cristian Rodriguez
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeCarlos Moya
- BridgeHoracio Zeballos
- BridgeNicolas Mejia
- BridgeXavier Lawrence
- DestinationCristian Rodriguez
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeNicolas Mejia
- BridgeXavier Lawrence
- DestinationCristian Rodriguez
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- BridgeNicolas Mejia
- BridgeXavier Lawrence
- DestinationCristian Rodriguez
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeLorenzo Sonego
- BridgeNicolas Mejia
- BridgeXavier Lawrence
- DestinationCristian Rodriguez
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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