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
Steve Kennedy
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 meetings20January 31, 1992 — April 13, 1992View Pete Sampras × Martin Jaite →02 BridgeOpen career →Martin Jaite
1 meeting01October 24, 1988View Martin Jaite × Eric Winogradsky →03 BridgeOpen career →Eric Winogradsky
1 meeting10September 1, 1987View Eric Winogradsky × Steve Kennedy →04 DestinationOpen career →Steve Kennedy
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
- BridgeEric Winogradsky
- DestinationSteve Kennedy
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePeter Lundgren
- BridgeEric Winogradsky
- DestinationSteve Kennedy
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEric Jelen
- BridgeEric Winogradsky
- DestinationSteve Kennedy
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarel Novacek
- BridgeEric Winogradsky
- DestinationSteve Kennedy
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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