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 Hayes
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 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 meeting10August 3, 1982View Guy Forget × John Hayes →03 DestinationOpen career →John Hayes
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- DestinationJohn Hayes
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndres Gomez
- DestinationJohn Hayes
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamesh Krishnan
- DestinationJohn Hayes
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSammy Giammalva Jr
- DestinationJohn Hayes
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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