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
Joe Huey
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 6, 1968View Joe Huey × Jay Paulson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jay Paulson
1 meeting01April 21, 1969View Jay Paulson × John Alexander →03 BridgeOpen career →John Alexander
2 meetings02May 28, 1984 — August 20, 1984View John Alexander × Mats Wilander →04 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
3 meetings12August 28, 1989 — September 22, 1995View Mats Wilander × 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.
- OriginJoe Huey
- BridgeJay Paulson
- BridgeJohn Alexander
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJoe Huey
- BridgeJay Paulson
- BridgeJohn Alexander
- BridgeGuy Forget
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJoe Huey
- BridgeJay Paulson
- BridgeJohn Alexander
- BridgeSimon Youl
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJoe Huey
- BridgeJay Paulson
- BridgeJohn Alexander
- 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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