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
Uli Heyne
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01March 13, 1989View Pete Sampras × Miloslav Mecir →02 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
1 meeting01August 13, 1984View Miloslav Mecir × Sandy Mayer →03 BridgeOpen career →Sandy Mayer
1 meeting10July 23, 1973View Sandy Mayer × Erwin Jager →04 BridgeOpen career →Erwin Jager
1 meeting10July 23, 1973View Erwin Jager × Uli Heyne →05 DestinationOpen career →Uli Heyne
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeSandy Mayer
- BridgeErwin Jager
- DestinationUli Heyne
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBoris Becker
- BridgeSandy Mayer
- BridgeErwin Jager
- DestinationUli Heyne
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeSandy Mayer
- BridgeErwin Jager
- DestinationUli Heyne
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeSandy Mayer
- BridgeErwin Jager
- DestinationUli Heyne
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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