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
Renald Etienne
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01February 5, 1988View Renald Etienne × Noel Rutherford →02 BridgeOpen career →Noel Rutherford
1 meeting01February 1, 1991View Noel Rutherford × Mario Rincon →03 BridgeOpen career →Mario Rincon
4 meetings13January 30, 1987 — October 27, 1997View Mario Rincon × Marcelo Filippini →04 BridgeOpen career →Marcelo Filippini
5 meetings05April 27, 1992 — February 24, 1997View Marcelo Filippini × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRenald Etienne
- BridgeNoel Rutherford
- BridgeMario Rincon
- BridgeDavid Engel
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRenald Etienne
- BridgeNoel Rutherford
- BridgeMario Rincon
- BridgeJavier Sanchez
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRenald Etienne
- BridgeNoel Rutherford
- BridgeMario Rincon
- BridgeFernando Meligeni
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRenald Etienne
- BridgeNoel Rutherford
- BridgeMario Rincon
- BridgeMauricio Hadad
- DestinationPete Sampras
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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