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
Nicolas Sotiriu
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 meeting01February 24, 1976View Nicolas Sotiriu × Mark Edmondson →02 BridgeOpen career →Mark Edmondson
1 meeting01May 2, 1983View Mark Edmondson × Mats Wilander →03 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
3 meetings12August 28, 1989 — September 22, 1995View Mats Wilander × 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.
- OriginNicolas Sotiriu
- BridgeMark Edmondson
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginNicolas Sotiriu
- BridgeMark Edmondson
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginNicolas Sotiriu
- BridgeMark Edmondson
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginNicolas Sotiriu
- BridgeMark Edmondson
- BridgeKevin Curren
- 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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