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
Santiago Gonzalez
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 1 meeting10October 16, 1995View Pete Sampras × Ronald Agenor →02 BridgeOpen career →Ronald Agenor
2 meetings11March 31, 1995 — February 7, 1997View Ronald Agenor × Ricardo Mena →03 BridgeOpen career →Ricardo Mena
1 meeting01April 4, 2003View Ricardo Mena × Santiago Gonzalez →04 DestinationOpen career →Santiago Gonzalez
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
- BridgeMagnus Gustafsson
- BridgeJose Acasuso
- DestinationSantiago Gonzalez
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMarcelo Filippini
- BridgeRicardo Mena
- DestinationSantiago Gonzalez
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJaime Yzaga
- BridgeRicardo Mena
- DestinationSantiago Gonzalez
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeRuben Ramirez Hidalgo
- DestinationSantiago Gonzalez
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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