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
Daniel Langre
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 1 meeting10January 8, 1990View Pete Sampras × Omar Camporese →02 BridgeOpen career →Omar Camporese
1 meeting10July 27, 1992View Omar Camporese × Juan Rios →03 BridgeOpen career →Juan Rios
1 meeting01April 9, 2004View Juan Rios × Scott Willinsky →04 BridgeOpen career →Scott Willinsky
1 meeting01February 6, 2004View Scott Willinsky × Daniel Langre →05 DestinationOpen career →Daniel Langre
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
- BridgeDaniel Nestor
- BridgeMiguel Gallardo Valles
- BridgeScott Willinsky
- DestinationDaniel Langre
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFelix Mantilla
- BridgeMiguel Gallardo Valles
- BridgeScott Willinsky
- DestinationDaniel Langre
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- BridgeScott Willinsky
- DestinationDaniel Langre
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- BridgeScott Willinsky
- DestinationDaniel Langre
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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