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
Sebastien Vidal
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 meeting01April 5, 2013View Sebastien Vidal × Olivier Sajous →02 BridgeOpen career →Olivier Sajous
1 meeting01February 1, 2013View Olivier Sajous × Mauricio Echazu →03 BridgeOpen career →Mauricio Echazu
1 meeting01May 8, 2009View Mauricio Echazu × Nicolas Lapentti →04 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Lapentti
3 meetings03November 22, 1999 — August 6, 2001View Nicolas Lapentti × 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.
- OriginSebastien Vidal
- BridgeDavid Souto
- BridgeIvan Miranda
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSebastien Vidal
- BridgeDavid Souto
- BridgeIvan Miranda
- BridgeDaniel Nestor
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSebastien Vidal
- BridgeDavid Souto
- BridgeIvan Miranda
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSebastien Vidal
- BridgeDavid Souto
- BridgeIvan Miranda
- BridgeBohdan Ulihrach
- 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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