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 Furst
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 meetings20September 30, 1991 — August 16, 1993View Pete Sampras × Todd Nelson →02 BridgeOpen career →Todd Nelson
1 meeting10October 17, 1983View Todd Nelson × Wayne Hampson →03 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Hampson
1 meeting10January 7, 1980View Wayne Hampson × Thomas Furst →04 DestinationOpen career →Thomas Furst
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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