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
Tetsuya Sato
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 3 meetings21March 20, 1989 — May 10, 1993View Pete Sampras × Christian Bergstrom →02 BridgeOpen career →Christian Bergstrom
1 meeting10September 20, 1991View Christian Bergstrom × Roland So →03 BridgeOpen career →Roland So
1 meeting10March 29, 1991View Roland So × Tetsuya Sato →04 DestinationOpen career →Tetsuya Sato
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeRoland So
- DestinationTetsuya Sato
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNicklas Kulti
- BridgeRoland So
- DestinationTetsuya Sato
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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