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
Giambattista Cicivelli
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings20August 17, 1970 — September 20, 1971View Jimmy Connors × Allan Stone →03 BridgeOpen career →Allan Stone
2 meetings02April 22, 1968 — May 12, 1969View Allan Stone × Nicola Pietrangeli →04 BridgeOpen career →Nicola Pietrangeli
1 meeting10March 25, 1968View Nicola Pietrangeli × Antonio Rasicci →05 BridgeOpen career →Antonio Rasicci
1 meeting10March 25, 1968View Antonio Rasicci × Giambattista Cicivelli →06 DestinationOpen career →Giambattista Cicivelli
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJan Kodes
- BridgeNicola Pietrangeli
- BridgeAntonio Rasicci
- DestinationGiambattista Cicivelli
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeNicola Pietrangeli
- BridgeAntonio Rasicci
- DestinationGiambattista Cicivelli
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeNicola Pietrangeli
- BridgeAntonio Rasicci
- DestinationGiambattista Cicivelli
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeYannick Noah
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeNicola Pietrangeli
- BridgeAntonio Rasicci
- DestinationGiambattista Cicivelli
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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