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
Nestor Grammatica
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 meeting01June 10, 1974View Nestor Grammatica × Ian Pollard →02 BridgeOpen career →Ian Pollard
1 meeting01June 10, 1974View Ian Pollard × Lito Alvarez →03 BridgeOpen career →Lito Alvarez
2 meetings11May 16, 1977 — September 25, 1978View Lito Alvarez × Bill Scanlon →04 BridgeOpen career →Bill Scanlon
1 meeting01November 14, 1988View Bill Scanlon × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginNestor Grammatica
- BridgeIan Pollard
- BridgeLito Alvarez
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginNestor Grammatica
- BridgeIan Pollard
- BridgeIan Fletcher
- 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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