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
Bobby Wertheimer
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 2 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
1 meeting10August 27, 1975View Jimmy Connors × Georges Goven →03 BridgeOpen career →Georges Goven
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Georges Goven × Lindsay Murphy →04 BridgeOpen career →Lindsay Murphy
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Lindsay Murphy × Bobby Wertheimer →05 DestinationOpen career →Bobby Wertheimer
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeGeoff Masters
- BridgeLindsay Murphy
- DestinationBobby Wertheimer
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeRichard Gonzalez
- BridgeLindsay Murphy
- DestinationBobby Wertheimer
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeLindsay Murphy
- DestinationBobby Wertheimer
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeGeoff Masters
- BridgeLindsay Murphy
- DestinationBobby Wertheimer
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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