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
Marcelo Melo
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 10 meetings91June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Pete Sampras × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
1 meeting10February 25, 2008View Jonas Bjorkman × Paul Capdeville →03 BridgeOpen career →Paul Capdeville
1 meeting10April 6, 2012View Paul Capdeville × Martin Cuevas →04 BridgeOpen career →Martin Cuevas
1 meeting01May 7, 2010View Martin Cuevas × Marcelo Melo →05 DestinationOpen career →Marcelo Melo
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
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgePaul Capdeville
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- DestinationMarcelo Melo
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeThomaz Bellucci
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- DestinationMarcelo Melo
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgePaul Capdeville
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- DestinationMarcelo Melo
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeVincent Spadea
- BridgePaul Capdeville
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- DestinationMarcelo Melo
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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