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
Ulises Blanch
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 meeting01August 31, 2020View Ulises Blanch × Cristian Garin →02 BridgeOpen career →Cristian Garin
1 meeting10June 27, 2022View Cristian Garin × Elias Ymer →03 BridgeOpen career →Elias Ymer
1 meeting01February 1, 2016View Elias Ymer × Paul Henri Mathieu →04 BridgeOpen career →Paul Henri Mathieu
1 meeting10August 19, 2002View Paul Henri Mathieu × 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.
- OriginUlises Blanch
- BridgeCristian Garin
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginUlises Blanch
- BridgeCristian Garin
- BridgeSumit Nagal
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginUlises Blanch
- BridgeCristian Garin
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeRoger Federer
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginUlises Blanch
- BridgeCristian Garin
- BridgeErnesto Escobedo
- BridgeTommy Haas
- 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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