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
Gaston Escofet
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 meeting10August 6, 1990View Pete Sampras × Jim Pugh →02 BridgeOpen career →Jim Pugh
1 meeting10August 10, 1987View Jim Pugh × Eddie Edwards →03 BridgeOpen career →Eddie Edwards
1 meeting10September 24, 1979View Eddie Edwards × Gaston Escofet →04 DestinationOpen career →Gaston Escofet
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
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeEddie Edwards
- DestinationGaston Escofet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeEddie Edwards
- DestinationGaston Escofet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeEddie Edwards
- DestinationGaston Escofet
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePeter Lundgren
- BridgeEddie Edwards
- DestinationGaston Escofet
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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