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
Derek Schroder
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 meeting01March 13, 1989View Pete Sampras × Miloslav Mecir →02 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
2 meetings20May 20, 1985 — March 7, 1986View Miloslav Mecir × Vijay Amritraj →03 BridgeOpen career →Vijay Amritraj
2 meetings20June 10, 1974 — July 14, 1974View Vijay Amritraj × Derek Schroder →04 DestinationOpen career →Derek Schroder
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
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeAnand Amritraj
- DestinationDerek Schroder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- DestinationDerek Schroder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- DestinationDerek Schroder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRick Leach
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- DestinationDerek Schroder
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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