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
Dragos Dima
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 meeting10March 20, 2000View Pete Sampras × Andreas Vinciguerra →02 BridgeOpen career →Andreas Vinciguerra
1 meeting01September 18, 2009View Andreas Vinciguerra × Marius Copil →03 BridgeOpen career →Marius Copil
1 meeting10April 5, 2019View Marius Copil × Takanyi Garanganga →04 BridgeOpen career →Takanyi Garanganga
1 meeting01April 5, 2019View Takanyi Garanganga × Dragos Dima →05 DestinationOpen career →Dragos Dima
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
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- BridgeMarius Copil
- BridgeTakanyi Garanganga
- DestinationDragos Dima
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeMarius Copil
- BridgeTakanyi Garanganga
- DestinationDragos Dima
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeMirza Basic
- BridgeTakanyi Garanganga
- DestinationDragos Dima
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeMarius Copil
- BridgeTakanyi Garanganga
- DestinationDragos Dima
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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