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
Jose Luis Noriega
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings11August 28, 1995 — May 10, 1999View Pete Sampras × Fernando Meligeni →02 BridgeOpen career →Fernando Meligeni
2 meetings20July 8, 1994 — September 12, 1994View Fernando Meligeni × Jose Luis Noriega →03 DestinationOpen career →Jose Luis Noriega
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGrant Stafford
- DestinationJose Luis Noriega
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- DestinationJose Luis Noriega
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLuiz Mattar
- DestinationJose Luis Noriega
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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