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
Terence Chia
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 4 meetings31April 30, 1990 — January 10, 1994View Pete Sampras × Jonas Svensson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Svensson
1 meeting10October 18, 1993View Jonas Svensson × Bing Pan →03 BridgeOpen career →Bing Pan
1 meeting01February 5, 1993View Bing Pan × Terence Chia →04 DestinationOpen career →Terence Chia
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
- BridgeAlexander Volkov
- BridgeJia Ping Xia
- DestinationTerence Chia
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeJia Ping Xia
- DestinationTerence Chia
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeBing Pan
- DestinationTerence Chia
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBrett Steven
- BridgeJia Ping Xia
- DestinationTerence Chia
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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