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
U Bighini
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 meeting01March 25, 1968View U Bighini × Leonardo Scrocchia →02 BridgeOpen career →Leonardo Scrocchia
1 meeting01March 25, 1968View Leonardo Scrocchia × Gaetano Di Maso →03 BridgeOpen career →Gaetano Di Maso
1 meeting01April 15, 1968View Gaetano Di Maso × Allan Stone →04 BridgeOpen career →Allan Stone
2 meetings02August 17, 1970 — September 20, 1971View Allan Stone × Jimmy Connors →05 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings02March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Jimmy Connors × 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.
- OriginU Bighini
- BridgeLeonardo Scrocchia
- BridgeGaetano Di Maso
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginU Bighini
- BridgeLeonardo Scrocchia
- BridgeGaetano Di Maso
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginU Bighini
- BridgeLeonardo Scrocchia
- BridgeGaetano Di Maso
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeYannick Noah
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginU Bighini
- BridgeLeonardo Scrocchia
- BridgeGaetano Di Maso
- BridgeIlie Nastase
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- 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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