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
Iphton Louis
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 5 meetings41April 26, 1993 — August 16, 1999View Pete Sampras × Vincent Spadea →02 BridgeOpen career →Vincent Spadea
1 meeting01March 27, 2008View Vincent Spadea × Pablo Cuevas →03 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Cuevas
1 meeting10February 6, 2004View Pablo Cuevas × Iphton Louis →04 DestinationOpen career →Iphton Louis
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
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- BridgeElmar Gerth
- DestinationIphton Louis
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- BridgeJean Julien Rojer
- DestinationIphton Louis
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJiri Novak
- BridgePaulo Carvallo
- DestinationIphton Louis
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimy Szymanski
- BridgePaulo Carvallo
- DestinationIphton Louis
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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