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
Brett Hibbert
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 1 meeting01January 1, 1980View Brett Hibbert × Mark Lewis →02 BridgeOpen career →Mark Lewis
1 meeting01December 13, 1982View Mark Lewis × Tim Wilkison →03 BridgeOpen career →Tim Wilkison
1 meeting01February 13, 1989View Tim Wilkison × Pete Sampras →04 DestinationOpen career →Pete 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.
Reverse the route →