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
Vallis Wilder
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01June 23, 1986View Vallis Wilder × Stefan Edberg →02 BridgeOpen career →Stefan Edberg
14 meetings68July 30, 1990 — October 23, 1995View Stefan Edberg × Pete Sampras →03 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 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginVallis Wilder
- BridgeJohan Carlsson
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginVallis Wilder
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginVallis Wilder
- BridgeJohn Fitzgerald
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginVallis Wilder
- BridgeScott Davis
- 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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