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
Heinz Hamza
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 meeting10August 20, 1968View Heinz Hamza × Milan Tajenar →02 BridgeOpen career →Milan Tajenar
1 meeting01August 3, 1969View Milan Tajenar × Christian Kuhnke →03 BridgeOpen career →Christian Kuhnke
1 meeting01March 24, 1974View Christian Kuhnke × Jimmy Connors →04 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings02March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Jimmy Connors × 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.
- OriginHeinz Hamza
- BridgeMilan Tajenar
- BridgeBob Hewitt
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHeinz Hamza
- BridgeMilan Tajenar
- BridgeBob Hewitt
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHeinz Hamza
- BridgeMilan Tajenar
- BridgeBob Hewitt
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginHeinz Hamza
- BridgeMartin Mulligan
- BridgeJoaquin Loyo Mayo
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- 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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