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
Ruben Torres
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 meetings50October 30, 1995 — June 11, 2001View Pete Sampras × Jan Siemerink →02 BridgeOpen career →Jan Siemerink
1 meeting10September 25, 1998View Jan Siemerink × Giovanni Lapentti →03 BridgeOpen career →Giovanni Lapentti
1 meeting10February 4, 2000View Giovanni Lapentti × Ruben Torres →04 DestinationOpen career →Ruben Torres
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
- BridgePatrick Rafter
- BridgeGiovanni Lapentti
- DestinationRuben Torres
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMarcelo Rios
- BridgeGiovanni Lapentti
- DestinationRuben Torres
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Goldstein
- BridgeGiovanni Lapentti
- DestinationRuben Torres
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMartin Lee
- BridgeGiovanni Lapentti
- DestinationRuben Torres
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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