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
Alphonse Neu
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 meeting10May 11, 1992View Pete Sampras × Goran Prpic →02 BridgeOpen career →Goran Prpic
1 meeting10July 15, 1985View Goran Prpic × Marko Ostoja →03 BridgeOpen career →Marko Ostoja
1 meeting10September 14, 1979View Marko Ostoja × Jose Vilela →04 BridgeOpen career →Jose Vilela
1 meeting10August 22, 1975View Jose Vilela × Alphonse Neu →05 DestinationOpen career →Alphonse Neu
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeMarko Ostoja
- BridgeJose Vilela
- DestinationAlphonse Neu
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeMarko Ostoja
- BridgeJose Vilela
- DestinationAlphonse Neu
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRick Leach
- BridgeMarko Ostoja
- BridgeJose Vilela
- DestinationAlphonse Neu
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeMarko Ostoja
- BridgeJose Vilela
- DestinationAlphonse Neu
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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