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
Lajos Levai
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 meeting01March 13, 1989View Pete Sampras × Miloslav Mecir →02 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
2 meetings20December 19, 1983 — March 18, 1985View Miloslav Mecir × Paul Mcnamee →03 BridgeOpen career →Paul Mcnamee
1 meeting10October 3, 1977View Paul Mcnamee × Lajos Levai →04 DestinationOpen career →Lajos Levai
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
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- DestinationLajos Levai
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- DestinationLajos Levai
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- DestinationLajos Levai
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- DestinationLajos Levai
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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