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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
Luis Guto Miguel
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 OriginOpen career →8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
1 meeting01August 23, 2015View Tommy Haas × Pablo Carreno Busta →03 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Carreno Busta
1 meeting10July 21, 2026View Pablo Carreno Busta × Vilius Gaubas →04 BridgeOpen career →Vilius Gaubas
1 meeting10February 16, 2026View Vilius Gaubas × Luis Guto Miguel →05 DestinationOpen career →Luis Guto Miguel
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
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- BridgeVilius Gaubas
- DestinationLuis Guto Miguel
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeAlexander Zverev
- BridgeVilius Gaubas
- DestinationLuis Guto Miguel
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeDenis Shapovalov
- BridgeVilius Gaubas
- DestinationLuis Guto Miguel
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeFelix Auger-Aliassime
- BridgeVilius Gaubas
- DestinationLuis Guto Miguel
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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