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
Craig Smith
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 5 meetings50April 27, 1992 — February 24, 1997View Pete Sampras × Marcelo Filippini →02 BridgeOpen career →Marcelo Filippini
2 meetings11March 8, 1985 — January 30, 1987View Marcelo Filippini × Alvaro Jordan →03 BridgeOpen career →Alvaro Jordan
1 meeting10January 31, 1992View Alvaro Jordan × Craig Smith →04 DestinationOpen career →Craig Smith
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
- BridgeMariano Puerta
- BridgeJaime Cortes
- DestinationCraig Smith
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDiego Perez
- BridgeAlvaro Jordan
- DestinationCraig Smith
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDoug Burke
- BridgeAlvaro Jordan
- DestinationCraig Smith
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Smith
- BridgeAlvaro Jordan
- DestinationCraig Smith
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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