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
Mike Bolton
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 meeting01March 18, 1968View Mike Bolton × Rolf Harms →02 BridgeOpen career →Rolf Harms
1 meeting01March 18, 1968View Rolf Harms × Andras Szikszay →03 BridgeOpen career →Andras Szikszay
1 meeting01April 15, 1968View Andras Szikszay × Teimuraz Kakulia →04 BridgeOpen career →Teimuraz Kakulia
1 meeting01February 10, 1975View Teimuraz Kakulia × 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.
- OriginMike Bolton
- BridgeRolf Harms
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMike Bolton
- BridgeRolf Harms
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMike Bolton
- BridgeRolf Harms
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMike Bolton
- BridgeRolf Harms
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- 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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