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
G R D Porteus
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 2 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings20December 21, 1974 — October 5, 1975View Jimmy Connors × Grover Raz Reid →03 BridgeOpen career →Grover Raz Reid
1 meeting10April 6, 1970View Grover Raz Reid × Jamie Pressly →04 BridgeOpen career →Jamie Pressly
1 meeting10July 13, 1970View Jamie Pressly × L B Taylor →05 BridgeOpen career →L B Taylor
1 meeting10July 13, 1970View L B Taylor × G R D Porteus →06 DestinationOpen career →G R D Porteus
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeGrover Raz Reid
- BridgeJamie Pressly
- BridgeL B Taylor
- DestinationG R D Porteus
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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