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
Roey Tabet
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 8 meetings53August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Pete Sampras × Tommy Haas →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
1 meeting10May 15, 2017View Tommy Haas × Ernesto Escobedo →03 BridgeOpen career →Ernesto Escobedo
1 meeting01September 16, 2023View Ernesto Escobedo × Rigele Te →04 BridgeOpen career →Rigele Te
1 meeting01February 3, 2023View Rigele Te × Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida →05Open career → 1 meeting10September 18, 2021View Matheus Pucinelli De Almeida × Roey Tabet →06 DestinationOpen career →Roey Tabet
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
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeErnesto Escobedo
- BridgeHolger Rune
- DestinationRoey Tabet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeReilly Opelka
- DestinationRoey Tabet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeMiomir Kecmanovic
- DestinationRoey Tabet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeGabriel Diallo
- DestinationRoey Tabet
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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