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
Carl Johnson
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 meeting10June 10, 1985View Goran Prpic × Guillermo Vilas →03 BridgeOpen career →Guillermo Vilas
1 meeting10February 23, 1973View Guillermo Vilas × Miguel Olvera →04 BridgeOpen career →Miguel Olvera
1 meeting10April 8, 1968View Miguel Olvera × Carl Johnson →05 DestinationOpen career →Carl Johnson
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
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeStan Smith
- BridgeMiguel Olvera
- DestinationCarl Johnson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeGuillermo Vilas
- BridgeMiguel Olvera
- DestinationCarl Johnson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeJose Luis Damiani
- BridgeMiguel Olvera
- DestinationCarl Johnson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeGuillermo Vilas
- BridgeMiguel Olvera
- DestinationCarl Johnson
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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