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
Gordon Blaylock
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 9 meetings54March 16, 1990 — April 15, 1996View Pete Sampras × Guy Forget →02 BridgeOpen career →Guy Forget
1 meeting01April 25, 1983View Guy Forget × Buster C Mottram →03 BridgeOpen career →Buster C Mottram
1 meeting10July 24, 1978View Buster C Mottram × Ben Bishop →04 BridgeOpen career →Ben Bishop
1 meeting10April 2, 1969View Ben Bishop × Gordon Blaylock →05 DestinationOpen career →Gordon Blaylock
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeGerald Battrick
- BridgeBen Bishop
- DestinationGordon Blaylock
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJohn James
- BridgeBen Bishop
- DestinationGordon Blaylock
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeUlrich Pinner
- BridgeBen Bishop
- DestinationGordon Blaylock
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeBuster C Mottram
- BridgeBen Bishop
- DestinationGordon Blaylock
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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