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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.

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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Pete Sampras
reaches
Gert Vilms

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

2,564 players examined
  1. 6 meetings60June 21, 1993 — March 4, 2002
    View Pete Sampras × Byron Black →
  2. 2 meetings20June 15, 1990 — July 17, 1992
    View Byron Black × Ilou Lonfo →
  3. 1 meeting10July 20, 2001
    View Ilou Lonfo × Gert Vilms →

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.

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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