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
Thomas Emmrich
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 11 meetings92August 27, 1990 — March 9, 1998View Pete Sampras × Thomas Muster →02 BridgeOpen career →Thomas Muster
1 meeting10July 18, 1986View Thomas Muster × Andrei Dirzu →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Dirzu
1 meeting10December 15, 1980View Andrei Dirzu × Thomas Emmrich →04 DestinationOpen career →Thomas Emmrich
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
- BridgeBoris Becker
- BridgeRichard Meyer
- DestinationThomas Emmrich
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHorst Skoff
- BridgeAndrei Dirzu
- DestinationThomas Emmrich
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeRichard Meyer
- DestinationThomas Emmrich
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeRichard Meyer
- DestinationThomas Emmrich
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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