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
Toru Yonezawa
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 1 meeting10August 6, 1990View Pete Sampras × Jim Pugh →02 BridgeOpen career →Jim Pugh
2 meetings11August 13, 1990 — April 29, 1991View Jim Pugh × Jimmy Arias →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Arias
1 meeting10October 18, 1982View Jimmy Arias × Toru Yonezawa →04 DestinationOpen career →Toru Yonezawa
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
- BridgeJim Pugh
- BridgeMatt Anger
- DestinationToru Yonezawa
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- DestinationToru Yonezawa
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeTim Gullikson
- DestinationToru Yonezawa
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeTom Gullikson
- DestinationToru Yonezawa
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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