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
Eddy Chala
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 meeting10May 11, 1992View Pete Sampras × Goran Prpic →02 BridgeOpen career →Goran Prpic
1 meeting10March 5, 1990View Goran Prpic × Younes El Aynaoui →03 BridgeOpen career →Younes El Aynaoui
1 meeting10April 11, 2008View Younes El Aynaoui × Conor Niland →04 BridgeOpen career →Conor Niland
1 meeting10March 6, 2009View Conor Niland × Eddy Chala →05 DestinationOpen career →Eddy Chala
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
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationEddy Chala
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationEddy Chala
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarel Novacek
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationEddy Chala
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaolo Cane
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationEddy Chala
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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