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
Philip Davydenko
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 5 meetings41April 26, 1993 — August 16, 1999View Pete Sampras × Vincent Spadea →02 BridgeOpen career →Vincent Spadea
1 meeting01February 22, 2010View Vincent Spadea × Santiago Giraldo →03 BridgeOpen career →Santiago Giraldo
1 meeting10July 7, 2014View Santiago Giraldo × Philip Davydenko →04 DestinationOpen career →Philip Davydenko
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
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- BridgeSantiago Giraldo
- DestinationPhilip Davydenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeSantiago Giraldo
- DestinationPhilip Davydenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeSantiago Giraldo
- DestinationPhilip Davydenko
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeStefan Koubek
- BridgeSantiago Giraldo
- DestinationPhilip Davydenko
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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