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
Tyler Chin
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 meeting01July 10, 2009View Tyler Chin × Alexander Blom →02 BridgeOpen career →Alexander Blom
1 meeting01July 15, 2005View Alexander Blom × Gustavo Kuerten →03 BridgeOpen career →Gustavo Kuerten
3 meetings12November 22, 1999 — November 27, 2000View Gustavo Kuerten × Pete Sampras →04 DestinationOpen career →Pete 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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