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
David Vega Hernandez
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 8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
1 meeting01August 23, 2015View Tommy Haas × Pablo Carreno Busta →03 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Carreno Busta
1 meeting10April 27, 2015View Pablo Carreno Busta × David Vega Hernandez →04 DestinationOpen career →David Vega Hernandez
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgePablo Carreno Busta
- DestinationDavid Vega Hernandez
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMikhail Youzhny
- BridgePablo Carreno Busta
- DestinationDavid Vega Hernandez
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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