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
Paschoal Penetta
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 meeting01August 28, 1989View Pete Sampras × Jay Berger →02 BridgeOpen career →Jay Berger
1 meeting10February 5, 1990View Jay Berger × Nelson Aerts →03 BridgeOpen career →Nelson Aerts
1 meeting10November 21, 1983View Nelson Aerts × Paschoal Penetta →04 DestinationOpen career →Paschoal Penetta
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
- BridgeHorst Skoff
- BridgeNelson Aerts
- DestinationPaschoal Penetta
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeNelson Aerts
- DestinationPaschoal Penetta
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndres Gomez
- BridgeNelson Aerts
- DestinationPaschoal Penetta
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJeremy Bates
- BridgeDaniel Montes De Oca
- DestinationPaschoal Penetta
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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