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 Hohnhold
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 meeting01October 30, 1976View Christian Hohnhold × Carlos Alvarado →02 BridgeOpen career →Carlos Alvarado
1 meeting01February 5, 1988View Carlos Alvarado × Mario Tabares →03 BridgeOpen career →Mario Tabares
1 meeting01May 28, 1990View Mario Tabares × Amos Mansdorf →04 BridgeOpen career →Amos Mansdorf
4 meetings04July 29, 1991 — April 12, 1993View Amos Mansdorf × 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 Hohnhold
- BridgeCarlos Alvarado
- BridgeMario Tabares
- BridgeGrant Connell
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginChristian Hohnhold
- BridgeCarlos Alvarado
- BridgeMario Tabares
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginChristian Hohnhold
- BridgeCarlos Alvarado
- BridgeMario Tabares
- BridgeThierry Champion
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginChristian Hohnhold
- BridgeCarlos Alvarado
- BridgeMario Tabares
- BridgeAndrew Sznajder
- 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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