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
S Silberling
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 9 meetings54March 16, 1990 — April 15, 1996View Pete Sampras × Guy Forget →02 BridgeOpen career →Guy Forget
1 meeting10May 16, 1983View Guy Forget × Jaime Fillol →03 BridgeOpen career →Jaime Fillol
1 meeting10October 28, 1974View Jaime Fillol × Daniel Contet →04 BridgeOpen career →Daniel Contet
1 meeting10July 14, 1969View Daniel Contet × S Silberling →05 DestinationOpen career →S Silberling
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
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeDaniel Contet
- DestinationS Silberling
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeGraham Stilwell
- BridgeDaniel Contet
- DestinationS Silberling
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- BridgeDaniel Contet
- DestinationS Silberling
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeHans Jurgen Pohmann
- BridgeDaniel Contet
- DestinationS Silberling
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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