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
Doug Rees
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 meeting01June 4, 1973View Doug Rees × Jorge Berman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jorge Berman
1 meeting01March 18, 1968View Jorge Berman × Patricio Rodriguez Chi →03 BridgeOpen career →Patricio Rodriguez Chi
1 meeting01August 14, 1978View Patricio Rodriguez Chi × John McEnroe →04 BridgeOpen career →John McEnroe
3 meetings03July 23, 1990 — February 11, 1991View John McEnroe × Pete Sampras →05 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.
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