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
Jan Mulder
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 2 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
8 meetings62September 2, 1970 — June 25, 1979View Jimmy Connors × Mark Cox →03 BridgeOpen career →Mark Cox
1 meeting10January 8, 1968View Mark Cox × Dennis Breetzke →04 BridgeOpen career →Dennis Breetzke
1 meeting10July 22, 1968View Dennis Breetzke × Jan Mulder →05 DestinationOpen career →Jan Mulder
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
- BridgeWolfgang Popp
- BridgeMark Cox
- BridgeDennis Breetzke
- DestinationJan Mulder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeIvan Lendl
- BridgeMark Cox
- BridgeDennis Breetzke
- DestinationJan Mulder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeYannick Noah
- BridgeMark Cox
- BridgeDennis Breetzke
- DestinationJan Mulder
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamesh Krishnan
- BridgeMark Cox
- BridgeDennis Breetzke
- DestinationJan Mulder
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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