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
Hillel Rousseau
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 meeting10June 21, 1999View Pete Sampras × Daniel Nestor →02 BridgeOpen career →Daniel Nestor
1 meeting10February 8, 2002View Daniel Nestor × Miguel Gallardo Valles →03 BridgeOpen career →Miguel Gallardo Valles
1 meeting10January 31, 2014View Miguel Gallardo Valles × Luciano Ramazzini →04 BridgeOpen career →Luciano Ramazzini
1 meeting10April 5, 2013View Luciano Ramazzini × Hillel Rousseau →05 DestinationOpen career →Hillel Rousseau
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
- BridgeFelix Mantilla
- BridgeMiguel Gallardo Valles
- BridgeLuciano Ramazzini
- DestinationHillel Rousseau
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationHillel Rousseau
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- BridgeDuilio Beretta
- DestinationHillel Rousseau
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationHillel Rousseau
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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