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
Frits Luyk
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 meeting01March 13, 1989View Pete Sampras × Miloslav Mecir →02 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
1 meeting01March 24, 1986View Miloslav Mecir × Wojtek Fibak →03 BridgeOpen career →Wojtek Fibak
1 meeting10October 24, 1978View Wojtek Fibak × Paul Van Min →04 BridgeOpen career →Paul Van Min
1 meeting10July 22, 1968View Paul Van Min × Frits Luyk →05 DestinationOpen career →Frits Luyk
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
- BridgeWojtek Fibak
- BridgePaul Van Min
- DestinationFrits Luyk
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgeWojtek Fibak
- BridgePaul Van Min
- DestinationFrits Luyk
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeWojtek Fibak
- BridgePaul Van Min
- DestinationFrits Luyk
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgePhil Dent
- BridgePaul Van Min
- DestinationFrits Luyk
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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