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
Curt Stalder
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 1 meeting10August 6, 1990View Pete Sampras × Jim Pugh →02 BridgeOpen career →Jim Pugh
2 meetings11April 18, 1988 — May 28, 1990View Jim Pugh × Thierry Tulasne →03 BridgeOpen career →Thierry Tulasne
1 meeting10August 17, 1981View Thierry Tulasne × Curt Stalder →04 DestinationOpen career →Curt Stalder
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
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeThierry Tulasne
- DestinationCurt Stalder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeVictor Pecci
- DestinationCurt Stalder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeThierry Tulasne
- DestinationCurt Stalder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeThierry Tulasne
- DestinationCurt Stalder
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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