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
Ferrante Rocchi
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 1 meeting10May 11, 1992View Pete Sampras × Goran Prpic →02 BridgeOpen career →Goran Prpic
2 meetings20June 10, 1985 — August 20, 1990View Goran Prpic × Claudio Mezzadri →03 BridgeOpen career →Claudio Mezzadri
1 meeting10July 16, 1984View Claudio Mezzadri × Ferrante Rocchi →04 DestinationOpen career →Ferrante Rocchi
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
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeClaudio Mezzadri
- DestinationFerrante Rocchi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- DestinationFerrante Rocchi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeRoberto Arguello
- DestinationFerrante Rocchi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- DestinationFerrante Rocchi
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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