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
Paul Hoffmann
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 meetings20June 12, 1989 — October 14, 1991View Pete Sampras × Tom Nijssen →02 BridgeOpen career →Tom Nijssen
1 meeting01June 12, 1987View Tom Nijssen × Matt Doyle →03 BridgeOpen career →Matt Doyle
1 meeting10May 7, 1982View Matt Doyle × Paul Hoffmann →04 DestinationOpen career →Paul Hoffmann
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
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeSean Sorensen
- DestinationPaul Hoffmann
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeMatt Doyle
- DestinationPaul Hoffmann
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeMatt Doyle
- DestinationPaul Hoffmann
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeSean Sorensen
- DestinationPaul Hoffmann
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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