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
Pete Sampras
reaches
Alfredo Acuna
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 meeting10February 19, 1990View Pete Sampras × Mark Kratzmann →02 BridgeOpen career →Mark Kratzmann
1 meeting10June 23, 1986View Mark Kratzmann × Carlos Kirmayr →03 BridgeOpen career →Carlos Kirmayr
1 meeting10December 19, 1975View Carlos Kirmayr × Alfredo Acuna →04 DestinationOpen career →Alfredo Acuna
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHoracio De La Pena
- BridgeCarlos Kirmayr
- DestinationAlfredo Acuna
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHorst Skoff
- BridgeCarlos Kirmayr
- DestinationAlfredo Acuna
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGuillermo Perez Roldan
- BridgeCarlos Kirmayr
- DestinationAlfredo Acuna
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJaime Pinto Bravo
- DestinationAlfredo Acuna
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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