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
Lassantha Fernando
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 1 meeting01March 13, 1989View Pete Sampras × Miloslav Mecir →02 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
2 meetings20May 20, 1985 — March 7, 1986View Miloslav Mecir × Vijay Amritraj →03 BridgeOpen career →Vijay Amritraj
1 meeting10April 20, 1973View Vijay Amritraj × Saeed Meer →04 BridgeOpen career →Saeed Meer
1 meeting10October 1, 1975View Saeed Meer × Lassantha Fernando →05 DestinationOpen career →Lassantha Fernando
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
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeAnand Amritraj
- BridgeSaeed Meer
- DestinationLassantha Fernando
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeHarold Solomon
- BridgeSaeed Meer
- DestinationLassantha Fernando
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeJose Higueras
- BridgeAlexander Marcial
- DestinationLassantha Fernando
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeSaeed Meer
- DestinationLassantha Fernando
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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