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
Philippe Lacombe
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 1 meeting10August 25, 1997View Pete Sampras × Patrick Baur →02 BridgeOpen career →Patrick Baur
1 meeting01April 29, 1996View Patrick Baur × Michal Tabara →03 BridgeOpen career →Michal Tabara
1 meeting10September 24, 2004View Michal Tabara × Francisco Rodriguez →04 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Rodriguez
1 meeting10July 16, 1999View Francisco Rodriguez × Philippe Lacombe →05 DestinationOpen career →Philippe Lacombe
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
- BridgeMagnus Gustafsson
- BridgeMichal Tabara
- BridgeFrancisco Rodriguez
- DestinationPhilippe Lacombe
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrew Sznajder
- BridgeBertrand Madsen
- BridgeFrancisco Rodriguez
- DestinationPhilippe Lacombe
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMarcelo Filippini
- BridgeManuel Tejada
- BridgeFrancisco Rodriguez
- DestinationPhilippe Lacombe
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMarcelo Filippini
- BridgeJose Baires
- BridgeFrancisco Rodriguez
- DestinationPhilippe Lacombe
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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