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
Christian Bimes
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 meeting01July 14, 1969View Christian Bimes × William Alvarez →02 BridgeOpen career →William Alvarez
1 meeting01May 3, 1971View William Alvarez × Ilie Nastase →03 BridgeOpen career →Ilie Nastase
1 meeting01March 12, 1984View Ilie Nastase × Miloslav Mecir →04 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
1 meeting10March 13, 1989View Miloslav Mecir × 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.
- OriginChristian Bimes
- BridgeWilliam Alvarez
- BridgeIlie Nastase
- BridgeMats Wilander
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginChristian Bimes
- BridgeWilliam Alvarez
- BridgeIlie Nastase
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginChristian Bimes
- BridgeWilliam Alvarez
- BridgeIlie Nastase
- BridgeGuy Forget
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginChristian Bimes
- BridgeWilliam Alvarez
- BridgeIlie Nastase
- BridgeBoris Becker
- 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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