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
G Loader
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 3 meetings21August 28, 1989 — September 22, 1995View Pete Sampras × Mats Wilander →02 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
1 meeting10September 19, 1983View Mats Wilander × Eddie Dibbs →03 BridgeOpen career →Eddie Dibbs
1 meeting10October 27, 1974View Eddie Dibbs × Ezzat Nemati →04 BridgeOpen career →Ezzat Nemati
1 meeting10April 14, 1969View Ezzat Nemati × G Loader →05— DestinationOpen career →G Loader
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
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeEddie Dibbs
- BridgeEzzat Nemati
- —DestinationG Loader
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePatrick Proisy
- BridgeEzzat Nemati
- —DestinationG Loader
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeEddie Dibbs
- BridgeEzzat Nemati
- —DestinationG Loader
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgePatrick Proisy
- BridgeEzzat Nemati
- —DestinationG Loader
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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