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
M Arenzon
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 3 meetings21August 28, 1989 — September 22, 1995View Pete Sampras × Mats Wilander →02 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
3 meetings21September 22, 1980 — July 8, 1985View Mats Wilander × Hans Gildemeister →03 BridgeOpen career →Hans Gildemeister
1 meeting10November 15, 1982View Hans Gildemeister × Carlos Chabalgoity →04 BridgeOpen career →Carlos Chabalgoity
1 meeting10November 21, 1983View Carlos Chabalgoity × Edson Krause →05 BridgeOpen career →Edson Krause
1 meeting10November 21, 1983View Edson Krause × M Arenzon →06 DestinationOpen career →M Arenzon
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeHans Gildemeister
- BridgeCarlos Chabalgoity
- BridgeEdson Krause
- DestinationM Arenzon
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgeHans Gildemeister
- BridgeCarlos Chabalgoity
- BridgeEdson Krause
- DestinationM Arenzon
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeHans Gildemeister
- BridgeCarlos Chabalgoity
- BridgeEdson Krause
- DestinationM Arenzon
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarel Novacek
- BridgeHans Gildemeister
- BridgeCarlos Chabalgoity
- BridgeEdson Krause
- DestinationM Arenzon
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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