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
Dale Fritz
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 2, 1968View Dale Fritz × Donald Dell →02 BridgeOpen career →Donald Dell
1 meeting01March 29, 1970View Donald Dell × Onny Parun →03 BridgeOpen career →Onny Parun
5 meetings23September 1, 1971 — February 16, 1977View Onny Parun × Jimmy Connors →04 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings02March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Jimmy Connors × 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.
- OriginDale Fritz
- BridgeDonald Dell
- BridgeOnny Parun
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDale Fritz
- BridgeDonald Dell
- BridgeOnny Parun
- BridgeKevin Curren
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDale Fritz
- BridgeDonald Dell
- BridgeOnny Parun
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDale Fritz
- BridgeDonald Dell
- BridgeOnny Parun
- BridgeAndres Gomez
- 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.
Reverse the route →