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
Peter Avery
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 3 meetings21August 28, 1989 — September 22, 1995View Pete Sampras × Mats Wilander →02 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
1 meeting10November 2, 1981View Mats Wilander × Stan Smith →03 BridgeOpen career →Stan Smith
1 meeting10November 11, 1968View Stan Smith × John Barrett →04 BridgeOpen career →John Barrett
1 meeting10June 9, 1969View John Barrett × Peter Avery →05 DestinationOpen career →Peter Avery
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
- BridgeEric Jelen
- BridgeStan Smith
- BridgeJohn Barrett
- DestinationPeter Avery
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJoaquin Loyo Mayo
- BridgeAnthony Billington
- DestinationPeter Avery
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJoaquin Loyo Mayo
- BridgeJohn Barrett
- DestinationPeter Avery
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeStan Smith
- BridgeJohn Barrett
- DestinationPeter Avery
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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