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
Gisle Pedersen Jentoft
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 meeting01May 7, 1982View Gisle Pedersen Jentoft × Branko Horvat →02 BridgeOpen career →Branko Horvat
1 meeting01February 24, 1984View Branko Horvat × Paul Mcnamee →03 BridgeOpen career →Paul Mcnamee
2 meetings02December 19, 1983 — March 18, 1985View Paul Mcnamee × Miloslav Mecir →04 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
1 meeting10March 13, 1989View Miloslav Mecir × 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.
- OriginGisle Pedersen Jentoft
- BridgeBranko Horvat
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- BridgeMats Wilander
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGisle Pedersen Jentoft
- BridgeBranko Horvat
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGisle Pedersen Jentoft
- BridgeBranko Horvat
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginGisle Pedersen Jentoft
- BridgeBranko Horvat
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- 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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