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
Jack May
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
2 meetings11November 8, 1982 — December 2, 1982View Guy Forget × Phil Dent →03 BridgeOpen career →Phil Dent
1 meeting10January 19, 1968View Phil Dent × Henry Ladyman →04 BridgeOpen career →Henry Ladyman
1 meeting10December 30, 1968View Henry Ladyman × J Pugh →05 BridgeOpen career →J Pugh
1 meeting10December 30, 1968View J Pugh × Jack May →06 DestinationOpen career →Jack May
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
- BridgeGraham Stilwell
- BridgeRichard Coulthard
- BridgeJ Pugh
- DestinationJack May
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeRay Ruffels
- BridgeRichard Coulthard
- BridgeJ Pugh
- DestinationJack May
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePhil Dent
- BridgeHenry Ladyman
- BridgeJ Pugh
- DestinationJack May
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeRay Ruffels
- BridgeRichard Coulthard
- BridgeJ Pugh
- DestinationJack May
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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