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
Juan Carlos Ayala
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 2 meetings20January 31, 1992 — April 13, 1992View Pete Sampras × Martin Jaite →02 BridgeOpen career →Martin Jaite
1 meeting01May 9, 1983View Martin Jaite × Angel Gimenez →03 BridgeOpen career →Angel Gimenez
1 meeting10November 23, 1981View Angel Gimenez × Juan Carlos Ayala →04 DestinationOpen career →Juan Carlos Ayala
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
- BridgeEric Jelen
- BridgeAngel Gimenez
- DestinationJuan Carlos Ayala
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAmos Mansdorf
- BridgeCarlos Di Laura
- DestinationJuan Carlos Ayala
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeCarlos Di Laura
- DestinationJuan Carlos Ayala
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHoracio De La Pena
- BridgeCarlos Di Laura
- DestinationJuan Carlos Ayala
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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