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 Rudman
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 3 meetings21August 28, 1989 — September 22, 1995View Pete Sampras × Mats Wilander →02 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
1 meeting01December 24, 1981View Mats Wilander × Paul Kronk →03 BridgeOpen career →Paul Kronk
1 meeting01April 5, 1971View Paul Kronk × Jackie Saul →04 BridgeOpen career →Jackie Saul
1 meeting10April 4, 1969View Jackie Saul × J Rudman →05 DestinationOpen career →J Rudman
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
- BridgeRay Ruffels
- BridgeJackie Saul
- DestinationJ Rudman
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeRaymond Moore
- BridgeJackie Saul
- DestinationJ Rudman
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeByron Bertram
- BridgeJackie Saul
- DestinationJ Rudman
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePaul Kronk
- BridgeJackie Saul
- DestinationJ Rudman
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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