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
Des Hill
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 meeting01July 10, 1972View Des Hill × Vitas Gerulaitis →02 BridgeOpen career →Vitas Gerulaitis
1 meeting10February 27, 1984View Vitas Gerulaitis × Miloslav Mecir →03 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
1 meeting10March 13, 1989View Miloslav Mecir × Pete Sampras →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginDes Hill
- BridgeVitas Gerulaitis
- BridgeMats Wilander
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDes Hill
- BridgeVitas Gerulaitis
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDes Hill
- BridgeVitas Gerulaitis
- BridgeJohan Carlsson
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDes Hill
- BridgeVitas Gerulaitis
- BridgeAaron Krickstein
- 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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