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
L Lebowitz
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 meetings20January 31, 1992 — April 13, 1992View Pete Sampras × Martin Jaite →02 BridgeOpen career →Martin Jaite
1 meeting10September 19, 1983View Martin Jaite × Bernard Fritz →03 BridgeOpen career →Bernard Fritz
1 meeting10July 14, 1980View Bernard Fritz × Zlatko Ivancic →04 BridgeOpen career →Zlatko Ivancic
1 meeting10August 11, 1969View Zlatko Ivancic × L Lebowitz →05 DestinationOpen career →L Lebowitz
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
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeBernard Fritz
- BridgeZlatko Ivancic
- DestinationL Lebowitz
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSimon Youl
- BridgeRolf Gehring
- BridgeZlatko Ivancic
- DestinationL Lebowitz
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAmos Mansdorf
- BridgeRolf Gehring
- BridgeZlatko Ivancic
- DestinationL Lebowitz
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeHans Jurgen Pohmann
- BridgeZlatko Ivancic
- DestinationL Lebowitz
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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