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
Carlos Chavez
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 2 meetings20April 27, 1992 — March 1, 1993View Pete Sampras × Luiz Mattar →02 BridgeOpen career →Luiz Mattar
1 meeting10March 7, 1986View Luiz Mattar × John Maginley →03 BridgeOpen career →John Maginley
1 meeting10February 1, 1991View John Maginley × Carlos Chavez →04 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Chavez
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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