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
Don Mays
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01September 22, 1968View Don Mays × John Haak →02 BridgeOpen career →John Haak
1 meeting01September 22, 1968View John Haak × Gary Hippenstiel →03 BridgeOpen career →Gary Hippenstiel
1 meeting10September 22, 1968View Gary Hippenstiel × Oscar Chiarella →04 BridgeOpen career →Oscar Chiarella
1 meeting01November 12, 1976View Oscar Chiarella × Julio Goes →05 BridgeOpen career →Julio Goes
1 meeting01September 29, 1986View Julio Goes × Ronald Agenor →06 BridgeOpen career →Ronald Agenor
1 meeting01October 16, 1995View Ronald Agenor × Pete Sampras →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginDon Mays
- BridgeJohn Haak
- BridgeGary Hippenstiel
- BridgeOscar Chiarella
- BridgeJulio Goes
- BridgeAndres Gomez
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDon Mays
- BridgeJohn Haak
- BridgeGary Hippenstiel
- BridgeOscar Chiarella
- BridgeJulio Goes
- BridgeYannick Noah
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDon Mays
- BridgeJohn Haak
- BridgeGary Hippenstiel
- BridgeOscar Chiarella
- BridgeJulio Goes
- BridgeDiego Perez
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDon Mays
- BridgeJohn Haak
- BridgeGary Hippenstiel
- BridgeOscar Chiarella
- BridgeJulio Goes
- BridgeMartin Wostenholme
- 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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