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
Yukihiko Murata
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01October 19, 1981View Yukihiko Murata × Hachiro Shibata →02 BridgeOpen career →Hachiro Shibata
1 meeting01October 19, 1981View Hachiro Shibata × Mel Purcell →03 BridgeOpen career →Mel Purcell
2 meetings02May 11, 1981 — March 28, 1983View Mel Purcell × Mats Wilander →04 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
3 meetings12August 28, 1989 — September 22, 1995View Mats Wilander × Pete Sampras →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginYukihiko Murata
- BridgeHachiro Shibata
- BridgeMel Purcell
- BridgeMartin Jaite
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginYukihiko Murata
- BridgeHachiro Shibata
- BridgeMel Purcell
- BridgeGuy Forget
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginYukihiko Murata
- BridgeHachiro Shibata
- BridgeMel Purcell
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginYukihiko Murata
- BridgeHachiro Shibata
- BridgeMel Purcell
- BridgeMark Woodforde
- 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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