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
Simone Vagnozzi
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 meetings50November 8, 1993 — January 19, 1998View Pete Sampras × Magnus Gustafsson →02 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Gustafsson
3 meetings21July 26, 1999 — October 16, 2000View Magnus Gustafsson × Juan Carlos Ferrero →03 BridgeOpen career →Juan Carlos Ferrero
1 meeting10April 18, 2011View Juan Carlos Ferrero × Simone Vagnozzi →04 DestinationOpen career →Simone Vagnozzi
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 Filippini
- BridgeIvo Heuberger
- DestinationSimone Vagnozzi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeIvo Heuberger
- DestinationSimone Vagnozzi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTomas Carbonell
- BridgeJuan Carlos Ferrero
- DestinationSimone Vagnozzi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeJuan Carlos Ferrero
- DestinationSimone Vagnozzi
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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