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
Don Mays
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 1 meeting10October 16, 1995View Pete Sampras × Ronald Agenor →02 BridgeOpen career →Ronald Agenor
1 meeting10September 29, 1986View Ronald Agenor × Julio Goes →03 BridgeOpen career →Julio Goes
1 meeting10November 12, 1976View Julio Goes × Oscar Chiarella →04 BridgeOpen career →Oscar Chiarella
1 meeting01September 22, 1968View Oscar Chiarella × Gary Hippenstiel →05 BridgeOpen career →Gary Hippenstiel
1 meeting10September 22, 1968View Gary Hippenstiel × John Haak →06 BridgeOpen career →John Haak
1 meeting10September 22, 1968View John Haak × Don Mays →07 DestinationOpen career →Don Mays
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
- BridgeTony Roche
- BridgeColin Stubs
- BridgeGary Hippenstiel
- BridgeJohn Haak
- DestinationDon Mays
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJun Kuki
- BridgeColin Stubs
- BridgeGary Hippenstiel
- BridgeJohn Haak
- DestinationDon Mays
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeJun Kuki
- BridgeColin Stubs
- BridgeGary Hippenstiel
- BridgeJohn Haak
- DestinationDon Mays
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeTony Roche
- BridgeColin Stubs
- BridgeGary Hippenstiel
- BridgeJohn Haak
- DestinationDon Mays
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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