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 Vallverdu
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings11August 28, 1995 — May 10, 1999View Pete Sampras × Fernando Meligeni →02 BridgeOpen career →Fernando Meligeni
1 meeting10September 20, 2002View Fernando Meligeni × Frank Dancevic →03 BridgeOpen career →Frank Dancevic
1 meeting10July 21, 2006View Frank Dancevic × Daniel Vallverdu →04 DestinationOpen career →Daniel Vallverdu
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeFrank Dancevic
- DestinationDaniel Vallverdu
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeRob Steckley
- DestinationDaniel Vallverdu
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeFrank Dancevic
- DestinationDaniel Vallverdu
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- BridgeFrank Dancevic
- DestinationDaniel Vallverdu
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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