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
Pete Sampras
reaches
A Chappell
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 2 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
5 meetings50March 4, 1976 — October 31, 1978View Jimmy Connors × Tony Roche →03 BridgeOpen career →Tony Roche
1 meeting10October 23, 1978View Tony Roche × Kiyoshi Tanabe →04 BridgeOpen career →Kiyoshi Tanabe
1 meeting10June 5, 1972View Kiyoshi Tanabe × William Shivar →05 BridgeOpen career →William Shivar
1 meeting10June 5, 1972View William Shivar × A Chappell →06 DestinationOpen career →A Chappell
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJun Kuki
- BridgeKiyoshi Tanabe
- BridgeWilliam Shivar
- DestinationA Chappell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeJun Kuki
- BridgeKiyoshi Tanabe
- BridgeWilliam Shivar
- DestinationA Chappell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeTony Roche
- BridgeKiyoshi Tanabe
- BridgeWilliam Shivar
- DestinationA Chappell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamesh Krishnan
- BridgeJun Kuki
- BridgeKiyoshi Tanabe
- BridgeWilliam Shivar
- DestinationA Chappell
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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