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
Bryan Burrell
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 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings20August 4, 1975 — April 9, 1979View Jimmy Connors × John James →03 BridgeOpen career →John James
1 meeting10January 17, 1972View John James × Bryan Burrell →04— DestinationOpen career →Bryan Burrell
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
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeJohn James
- —DestinationBryan Burrell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeJohn James
- —DestinationBryan Burrell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgePatricio Rodriguez Chi
- —DestinationBryan Burrell
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- BridgeJohn James
- —DestinationBryan Burrell
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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