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
C Mora
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 14 meetings86July 30, 1990 — October 23, 1995View Pete Sampras × Stefan Edberg →02 BridgeOpen career →Stefan Edberg
1 meeting01March 7, 1983View Stefan Edberg × Nick Saviano →03 BridgeOpen career →Nick Saviano
1 meeting10March 10, 1980View Nick Saviano × C Mora →04 DestinationOpen career →C Mora
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
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeNick Saviano
- DestinationC Mora
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeNick Saviano
- DestinationC Mora
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKevin Curren
- BridgeNick Saviano
- DestinationC Mora
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeNick Saviano
- DestinationC Mora
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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