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
Ville Jansson
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
1 meeting10July 31, 1989View Jim Pugh × Chris Pridham →03 BridgeOpen career →Chris Pridham
1 meeting10July 17, 1989View Chris Pridham × Ville Jansson →04 DestinationOpen career →Ville Jansson
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
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- BridgeChris Pridham
- DestinationVille Jansson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeChris Pridham
- DestinationVille Jansson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeSimon Youl
- BridgeChris Pridham
- DestinationVille Jansson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMark Woodforde
- BridgeChris Pridham
- DestinationVille Jansson
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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