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
Fred Martin
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 meeting01September 22, 1968View Fred Martin × Yit Louie →02 BridgeOpen career →Yit Louie
1 meeting01September 22, 1968View Yit Louie × Jeff Borowiak →03 BridgeOpen career →Jeff Borowiak
1 meeting10November 29, 1983View Jeff Borowiak × Stefan Edberg →04 BridgeOpen career →Stefan Edberg
14 meetings68July 30, 1990 — October 23, 1995View Stefan Edberg × 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.
- OriginFred Martin
- BridgeYit Louie
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeThomas Muster
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFred Martin
- BridgeYit Louie
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFred Martin
- BridgeYit Louie
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginFred Martin
- BridgeYit Louie
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeKevin Curren
- 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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