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
Raymond Mapp
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 1 meeting10May 11, 1992View Pete Sampras × Goran Prpic →02 BridgeOpen career →Goran Prpic
1 meeting10April 27, 1992View Goran Prpic × Bjorn Borg →03 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Borg
1 meeting10June 11, 1973View Bjorn Borg × Tony Parun →04 BridgeOpen career →Tony Parun
1 meeting10July 9, 1973View Tony Parun × Raymond Mapp →05— DestinationOpen career →Raymond Mapp
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
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeTony Parun
- —DestinationRaymond Mapp
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeTony Parun
- —DestinationRaymond Mapp
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeJohn Lloyd
- BridgeTony Parun
- —DestinationRaymond Mapp
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgePat Dupre
- BridgeTony Parun
- —DestinationRaymond Mapp
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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