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
Shane Barr
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 11 meetings101June 8, 1992 — June 8, 1998View Pete Sampras × Mark Woodforde →02 BridgeOpen career →Mark Woodforde
1 meeting10October 9, 1989View Mark Woodforde × Shane Barr →03 DestinationOpen career →Shane Barr
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- DestinationShane Barr
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- DestinationShane Barr
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn Fitzgerald
- DestinationShane Barr
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePaul Chamberlin
- DestinationShane Barr
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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