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
Degodos
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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 meeting10February 10, 1975View Jimmy Connors × Teimuraz Kakulia →03 BridgeOpen career →Teimuraz Kakulia
1 meeting10April 15, 1968View Teimuraz Kakulia × Andras Szikszay →04 BridgeOpen career →Andras Szikszay
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Andras Szikszay × Rolf Harms →05 BridgeOpen career →Rolf Harms
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Rolf Harms × Mike Bolton →06 BridgeOpen career →Mike Bolton
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Mike Bolton × Degodos →07— DestinationOpen career →Degodos
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- BridgeRolf Harms
- BridgeMike Bolton
- —DestinationDegodos
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- BridgeRolf Harms
- BridgeMike Bolton
- —DestinationDegodos
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- BridgeRolf Harms
- BridgeMike Bolton
- —DestinationDegodos
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- BridgeCliff Richey
- BridgeAndras Szikszay
- BridgeRolf Harms
- BridgeMike Bolton
- —DestinationDegodos
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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