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
Jack Oates
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 14 meetings86July 30, 1990 — October 23, 1995View Pete Sampras × Stefan Edberg →02 BridgeOpen career →Stefan Edberg
1 meeting01November 29, 1983View Stefan Edberg × Jeff Borowiak →03 BridgeOpen career →Jeff Borowiak
1 meeting10September 29, 1969View Jeff Borowiak × John Yeomans →04 BridgeOpen career →John Yeomans
1 meeting10September 22, 1968View John Yeomans × Jack Oates →05 DestinationOpen career →Jack Oates
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
- BridgeThomas Muster
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeJohn Yeomans
- DestinationJack Oates
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeJohn Yeomans
- DestinationJack Oates
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePaul Gerken
- BridgeJohn Yeomans
- DestinationJack Oates
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeRoss Case
- BridgeSteve Stefanki
- DestinationJack Oates
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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