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
Rodrigo Rappaccioli
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 meeting10July 9, 2010View Rodrigo Rappaccioli × Federico Zeballos →02 BridgeOpen career →Federico Zeballos
1 meeting01March 5, 2010View Federico Zeballos × Yohny Romero →03 BridgeOpen career →Yohny Romero
1 meeting01July 16, 1999View Yohny Romero × Guillermo Canas →04 BridgeOpen career →Guillermo Canas
2 meetings02May 20, 2002 — August 5, 2002View Guillermo Canas × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRodrigo Rappaccioli
- BridgeFederico Zeballos
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRodrigo Rappaccioli
- BridgeFederico Zeballos
- BridgeMauricio Echazu
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRodrigo Rappaccioli
- BridgeFederico Zeballos
- BridgeMarcelo Arevalo
- BridgeRamon Delgado
- 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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