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
Marat Deviatiarov
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 meeting10August 28, 2000View Pete Sampras × Agustin Calleri →02 BridgeOpen career →Agustin Calleri
1 meeting10April 25, 2005View Agustin Calleri × Rui Machado →03 BridgeOpen career →Rui Machado
1 meeting10April 5, 2013View Rui Machado × Lukas Mugevicius →04 BridgeOpen career →Lukas Mugevicius
1 meeting01September 18, 2015View Lukas Mugevicius × Marat Deviatiarov →05 DestinationOpen career →Marat Deviatiarov
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
- BridgeJuan Ignacio Chela
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeLukas Mugevicius
- DestinationMarat Deviatiarov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeLukas Mugevicius
- DestinationMarat Deviatiarov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeLukas Mugevicius
- DestinationMarat Deviatiarov
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- BridgeLukas Mugevicius
- DestinationMarat Deviatiarov
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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