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
Herbert Loerke
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 meeting10May 11, 1992View Pete Sampras × Goran Prpic →02 BridgeOpen career →Goran Prpic
1 meeting10June 10, 1985View Goran Prpic × Guillermo Vilas →03 BridgeOpen career →Guillermo Vilas
1 meeting10May 23, 1978View Guillermo Vilas × Gunther Gnettner →04 BridgeOpen career →Gunther Gnettner
1 meeting10July 23, 1973View Gunther Gnettner × Herbert Loerke →05 DestinationOpen career →Herbert Loerke
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
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeRussell Simpson
- BridgeGunther Gnettner
- DestinationHerbert Loerke
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeBalazs Taroczy
- BridgeGunther Gnettner
- DestinationHerbert Loerke
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeGuillermo Vilas
- BridgeGunther Gnettner
- DestinationHerbert Loerke
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeCorrado Barazzutti
- BridgeGunther Gnettner
- DestinationHerbert Loerke
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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