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
Kenneth Thome Bolanos
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 2 meetings20August 2, 1993 — July 24, 1995View Pete Sampras × Mauricio Hadad →02 BridgeOpen career →Mauricio Hadad
1 meeting01March 30, 1990View Mauricio Hadad × Rafael Moreno →03 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Moreno
1 meeting10February 2, 1990View Rafael Moreno × Kenneth Thome Bolanos →04 DestinationOpen career →Kenneth Thome Bolanos
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMauricio Hadad
- BridgeGenaro Deleon
- DestinationKenneth Thome Bolanos
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- BridgeGenaro Deleon
- DestinationKenneth Thome Bolanos
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Smith
- BridgeRafael Moreno
- DestinationKenneth Thome Bolanos
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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