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
Birger Folke
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 meeting01November 24, 1969View Birger Folke × Raymond Moore →02 BridgeOpen career →Raymond Moore
6 meetings06September 19, 1970 — July 26, 1976View Raymond Moore × Jimmy Connors →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings02March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Jimmy Connors × Pete Sampras →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginBirger Folke
- BridgeRaymond Moore
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBirger Folke
- BridgeRaymond Moore
- BridgeKevin Curren
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBirger Folke
- BridgeRaymond Moore
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBirger Folke
- BridgeRaymond Moore
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- 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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