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
Jasper Smit
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
01 1 meeting10June 21, 1993View Pete Sampras × Neil Borwick →02 BridgeOpen career →Neil Borwick
1 meeting10October 11, 1993View Neil Borwick × Gouichi Motomura →03 BridgeOpen career →Gouichi Motomura
1 meeting10September 25, 2006View Gouichi Motomura × Jasper Smit →04 DestinationOpen career →Jasper Smit
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBrett Steven
- BridgeGouichi Motomura
- DestinationJasper Smit
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJason Stoltenberg
- BridgeGouichi Motomura
- DestinationJasper Smit
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDoug Flach
- BridgeGouichi Motomura
- DestinationJasper Smit
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDaniel Vacek
- BridgeGouichi Motomura
- DestinationJasper Smit
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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