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
D Tomlinson
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 9 meetings54March 16, 1990 — April 15, 1996View Pete Sampras × Guy Forget →02 BridgeOpen career →Guy Forget
1 meeting10May 16, 1983View Guy Forget × Jaime Fillol →03 BridgeOpen career →Jaime Fillol
1 meeting10April 8, 1972View Jaime Fillol × Dennis Matthews →04— BridgeOpen career →Dennis Matthews
1 meeting10March 29, 1971View Dennis Matthews × Roy Schwegman →05 BridgeOpen career →Roy Schwegman
1 meeting10March 29, 1971View Roy Schwegman × D Tomlinson →06 DestinationOpen career →D Tomlinson
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
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- —BridgeDennis Matthews
- BridgeRoy Schwegman
- DestinationD Tomlinson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeGerald Battrick
- BridgeAshley Hewitt
- BridgeRoy Schwegman
- DestinationD Tomlinson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeBob Carmichael
- BridgeAshley Hewitt
- BridgeRoy Schwegman
- DestinationD Tomlinson
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePierre Barthes
- BridgeAshley Hewitt
- BridgeRoy Schwegman
- DestinationD Tomlinson
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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