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
Dave Shaw
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
3 meetings30August 4, 1975 — February 16, 1977View Jimmy Connors × Rod Laver →03 BridgeOpen career →Rod Laver
1 meeting10April 10, 1968View Rod Laver × Crawford Henry →04 BridgeOpen career →Crawford Henry
1 meeting10April 10, 1968View Crawford Henry × Dave Shaw →05 DestinationOpen career →Dave Shaw
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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