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
Hans Nordstrom
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
2 meetings11November 8, 1982 — December 2, 1982View Guy Forget × Phil Dent →03 BridgeOpen career →Phil Dent
2 meetings20June 9, 1969 — August 16, 1969View Phil Dent × George Taylor →04 BridgeOpen career →George Taylor
1 meeting10June 9, 1969View George Taylor × Hans Nordstrom →05 DestinationOpen career →Hans Nordstrom
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
- BridgeGraham Stilwell
- BridgeGeorge Taylor
- DestinationHans Nordstrom
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeTom Gorman
- BridgeGeorge Taylor
- DestinationHans Nordstrom
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePatrick Proisy
- BridgeGeorge Taylor
- DestinationHans Nordstrom
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePhil Dent
- BridgeGeorge Taylor
- DestinationHans Nordstrom
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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