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
Matwe Middelkoop
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 22 meetings184August 31, 1992 — April 22, 2002View Pete Sampras × Todd Martin →02 BridgeOpen career →Todd Martin
2 meetings20May 27, 2002 — April 12, 2004View Todd Martin × Martin Vassallo Arguello →03 BridgeOpen career →Martin Vassallo Arguello
1 meeting10March 6, 2009View Martin Vassallo Arguello × Matwe Middelkoop →04 DestinationOpen career →Matwe Middelkoop
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeMarc Gicquel
- DestinationMatwe Middelkoop
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeMarc Gicquel
- DestinationMatwe Middelkoop
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAlbert Portas
- BridgeMartin Vassallo Arguello
- DestinationMatwe Middelkoop
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFelix Mantilla
- BridgeMartin Vassallo Arguello
- DestinationMatwe Middelkoop
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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