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
Hans Hach Verdugo
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 meeting10May 24, 1999View Pete Sampras × Juan Antonio Marin →02 BridgeOpen career →Juan Antonio Marin
1 meeting01July 16, 1999View Juan Antonio Marin × Jhonson Garcia →03 BridgeOpen career →Jhonson Garcia
1 meeting10March 6, 2009View Jhonson Garcia × Christopher Diaz Figueroa →04Open career → 1 meeting01March 4, 2016View Christopher Diaz Figueroa × Hans Hach Verdugo →05 DestinationOpen career →Hans Hach Verdugo
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
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationHans Hach Verdugo
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- BridgeAlexander Blom
- DestinationHans Hach Verdugo
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeMartijn Van Haasteren
- DestinationHans Hach Verdugo
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationHans Hach Verdugo
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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