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
Ma Ilahi
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 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
3 meetings30August 8, 1976 — June 18, 1978View Jimmy Connors × Steve Krulevitz →03 BridgeOpen career →Steve Krulevitz
1 meeting01September 2, 1970View Steve Krulevitz × Ma Ilahi →04 DestinationOpen career →Ma Ilahi
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
- BridgeKevin Curren
- BridgeSteve Krulevitz
- DestinationMa Ilahi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeSteve Krulevitz
- DestinationMa Ilahi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgeSteve Krulevitz
- DestinationMa Ilahi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeIvan Lendl
- BridgeSteve Krulevitz
- DestinationMa Ilahi
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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