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
J Fannin
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 9 meetings54March 16, 1990 — April 15, 1996View Pete Sampras × Guy Forget →02 BridgeOpen career →Guy Forget
1 meeting10December 2, 1982View Guy Forget × Syd Ball →03 BridgeOpen career →Syd Ball
1 meeting10June 3, 1974View Syd Ball × Max Franklin →04 BridgeOpen career →Max Franklin
1 meeting10June 3, 1974View Max Franklin × A Jackson →05 BridgeOpen career →A Jackson
1 meeting10June 3, 1974View A Jackson × J Fannin →06 DestinationOpen career →J Fannin
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeMax Franklin
- BridgeA Jackson
- DestinationJ Fannin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeMax Franklin
- BridgeA Jackson
- DestinationJ Fannin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeMax Franklin
- BridgeA Jackson
- DestinationJ Fannin
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn Fitzgerald
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeMax Franklin
- BridgeA Jackson
- DestinationJ Fannin
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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