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
John Antonas
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 9 meetings54March 16, 1990 — April 15, 1996View Pete Sampras × Guy Forget →02 BridgeOpen career →Guy Forget
1 meeting01April 11, 1983View Guy Forget × Jairo Velasco →03 BridgeOpen career →Jairo Velasco
1 meeting10January 22, 1982View Jairo Velasco × John Antonas →04 DestinationOpen career →John Antonas
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
- BridgeAmos Mansdorf
- BridgeCarlos Claverie
- DestinationJohn Antonas
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeJairo Velasco
- DestinationJohn Antonas
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMarcelo Filippini
- BridgeCarlos Claverie
- DestinationJohn Antonas
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeChuck Adams
- BridgeCarlos Claverie
- DestinationJohn Antonas
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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