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
Roberto Maytin
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 3 meetings21June 7, 1999 — August 5, 2002View Pete Sampras × Wayne Arthurs →02 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Arthurs
1 meeting01May 29, 2006View Wayne Arthurs × Nicolas Almagro →03 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Almagro
1 meeting10February 8, 2008View Nicolas Almagro × Matias Silva →04 BridgeOpen career →Matias Silva
1 meeting01April 6, 2007View Matias Silva × Juan Manuel Elizondo →05 BridgeOpen career →Juan Manuel Elizondo
1 meeting10July 20, 2007View Juan Manuel Elizondo × Roberto Maytin →06 DestinationOpen career →Roberto Maytin
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
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeNicolas Almagro
- BridgeMatias Silva
- BridgeJuan Manuel Elizondo
- DestinationRoberto Maytin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeNicolas Almagro
- BridgeMatias Silva
- BridgeJuan Manuel Elizondo
- DestinationRoberto Maytin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeNicolas Almagro
- BridgeMatias Silva
- BridgeJuan Manuel Elizondo
- DestinationRoberto Maytin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeStefan Koubek
- BridgeCarlos Avellan
- BridgeMatias Silva
- BridgeJuan Manuel Elizondo
- DestinationRoberto Maytin
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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