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
Bob French
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 meeting01August 4, 1969View Bob French × John Mcmanus →02 BridgeOpen career →John Mcmanus
1 meeting01August 4, 1969View John Mcmanus × Jean Pierre Courcol →03 BridgeOpen career →Jean Pierre Courcol
1 meeting10May 21, 1969View Jean Pierre Courcol × Antonio Mennella →04 BridgeOpen career →Antonio Mennella
1 meeting01April 24, 1972View Antonio Mennella × 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.
- OriginBob French
- BridgeJohn Mcmanus
- BridgeJean Pierre Courcol
- BridgeTeimuraz Kakulia
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBob French
- BridgeJohn Mcmanus
- BridgeJean Pierre Courcol
- BridgeJan Kodes
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBob French
- BridgeJohn Mcmanus
- BridgeJean Pierre Courcol
- BridgeJan Kodes
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginBob French
- BridgeJohn Mcmanus
- BridgeJean Pierre Courcol
- BridgeJan Kodes
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- 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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