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
Matavao Fanguna
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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 meeting10February 1, 2013View Rui Machado × Alexis Klegou →04 BridgeOpen career →Alexis Klegou
1 meeting10February 7, 2026View Alexis Klegou × Juan Carlos Fuentes Vasquez →05Open career → 1 meeting10February 2, 2024View Juan Carlos Fuentes Vasquez × Matavao Fanguna →06 DestinationOpen career →Matavao Fanguna
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJuan Ignacio Chela
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeAlexis Klegou
- DestinationMatavao Fanguna
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeAlexis Klegou
- DestinationMatavao Fanguna
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeAlexis Klegou
- DestinationMatavao Fanguna
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeAlexis Klegou
- DestinationMatavao Fanguna
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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