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
J Griman
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 meeting01May 3, 1971View J Griman × Ivan Molina →02 BridgeOpen career →Ivan Molina
2 meetings02August 7, 1972 — January 17, 1974View Ivan Molina × 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 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJ Griman
- BridgeIvan Molina
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJ Griman
- BridgeIvan Molina
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJ Griman
- BridgeIvan Molina
- BridgeIvan Lendl
- 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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