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
Fernand Claude
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 meeting10February 20, 1989View Pete Sampras × Horacio De La Pena →02 BridgeOpen career →Horacio De La Pena
1 meeting10August 27, 1985View Horacio De La Pena × Leo Palin →03 BridgeOpen career →Leo Palin
1 meeting10August 28, 1976View Leo Palin × Fernand Claude →04 DestinationOpen career →Fernand Claude
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
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeLeo Palin
- DestinationFernand Claude
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeLeo Palin
- DestinationFernand Claude
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeWolfgang Popp
- BridgeLeo Palin
- DestinationFernand Claude
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMichiel Schapers
- BridgeLeo Palin
- DestinationFernand Claude
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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