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
Romano Tatuhey
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 3 meetings30April 8, 1996 — July 26, 1999View Pete Sampras × Sebastien Lareau →02 BridgeOpen career →Sebastien Lareau
1 meeting10April 4, 1997View Sebastien Lareau × Jose De Armas →03 BridgeOpen career →Jose De Armas
1 meeting10March 6, 2009View Jose De Armas × Romano Tatuhey →04 DestinationOpen career →Romano Tatuhey
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
- BridgeMarcelo Rios
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationRomano Tatuhey
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationRomano Tatuhey
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationRomano Tatuhey
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationRomano Tatuhey
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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