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
Marco Antonio Rojas
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 3 meetings30November 22, 1999 — August 6, 2001View Pete Sampras × Nicolas Lapentti →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Lapentti
1 meeting10May 8, 2009View Nicolas Lapentti × Mauricio Echazu →03 BridgeOpen career →Mauricio Echazu
1 meeting10April 5, 2013View Mauricio Echazu × Piero Luisi →04 BridgeOpen career →Piero Luisi
1 meeting10March 5, 2010View Piero Luisi × Marco Antonio Rojas →05 DestinationOpen career →Marco Antonio Rojas
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeMartijn Van Haasteren
- BridgePiero Luisi
- DestinationMarco Antonio Rojas
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeTimothy Neilly
- BridgePiero Luisi
- DestinationMarco Antonio Rojas
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJuan Ignacio Chela
- BridgeCesar Ramirez
- BridgePiero Luisi
- DestinationMarco Antonio Rojas
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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