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
Conor Ryan
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 meeting01March 13, 1989View Pete Sampras × Miloslav Mecir →02 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
1 meeting10March 12, 1984View Miloslav Mecir × Ilie Nastase →03 BridgeOpen career →Ilie Nastase
1 meeting10June 10, 1968View Ilie Nastase × Bill Bowrey →04 BridgeOpen career →Bill Bowrey
1 meeting10July 6, 1970View Bill Bowrey × Conor Ryan →05 DestinationOpen career →Conor Ryan
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
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- BridgeBill Bowrey
- DestinationConor Ryan
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeIlie Nastase
- BridgeBill Bowrey
- DestinationConor Ryan
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeStan Smith
- BridgeBill Bowrey
- DestinationConor Ryan
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeJohn Alexander
- BridgeBill Bowrey
- DestinationConor Ryan
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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