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
Ingo Wimmer
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01October 19, 1981View Ingo Wimmer × Eric Fromm →02 BridgeOpen career →Eric Fromm
1 meeting01May 5, 1986View Eric Fromm × Ronald Agenor →03 BridgeOpen career →Ronald Agenor
1 meeting01October 16, 1995View Ronald Agenor × Pete Sampras →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginIngo Wimmer
- BridgeEric Fromm
- BridgeJonas Svensson
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginIngo Wimmer
- BridgeEric Fromm
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginIngo Wimmer
- BridgeEric Fromm
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginIngo Wimmer
- BridgeEric Fromm
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- 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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