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
Terry Neudecker
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01June 22, 1968View Terry Neudecker × Steve Beeland →02 BridgeOpen career →Steve Beeland
1 meeting01April 6, 1970View Steve Beeland × Lenny Schloss →03 BridgeOpen career →Lenny Schloss
1 meeting10January 26, 1970View Lenny Schloss × John Ross →04 BridgeOpen career →John Ross
1 meeting01July 25, 1988View John Ross × Jim Pugh →05 BridgeOpen career →Jim Pugh
1 meeting01August 6, 1990View Jim Pugh × Pete Sampras →06 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginTerry Neudecker
- BridgeSteve Beeland
- BridgeLenny Schloss
- BridgeJohn Ross
- BridgeMats Wilander
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginTerry Neudecker
- BridgeSteve Beeland
- BridgeLenny Schloss
- BridgeJohn Ross
- BridgePeter Lundgren
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginTerry Neudecker
- BridgeSteve Beeland
- BridgeLenny Schloss
- BridgeJohn Ross
- BridgePaolo Cane
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginTerry Neudecker
- BridgeSteve Beeland
- BridgeLenny Schloss
- BridgeJohn Ross
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- DestinationPete Sampras
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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