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
Bob Stock
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 2 meetings11May 27, 1991 — October 14, 1991View Pete Sampras × Thierry Champion →02 BridgeOpen career →Thierry Champion
1 meeting10December 9, 1985View Thierry Champion × Kim Warwick →03 BridgeOpen career →Kim Warwick
1 meeting10June 5, 1972View Kim Warwick × Bob Stock →04 DestinationOpen career →Bob Stock
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeCliff Richey
- DestinationBob Stock
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeCliff Letcher
- DestinationBob Stock
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeKim Warwick
- DestinationBob Stock
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJohn Newcombe
- DestinationBob Stock
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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