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 Teal
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10November 14, 1988View Pete Sampras × Bill Scanlon →02 BridgeOpen career →Bill Scanlon
1 meeting10April 14, 1980View Bill Scanlon × Tom Leonard →03 BridgeOpen career →Tom Leonard
1 meeting10May 6, 1968View Tom Leonard × Jack Teal →04 DestinationOpen career →Jack Teal
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeTom Leonard
- DestinationJack Teal
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgeTom Leonard
- DestinationJack Teal
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRamesh Krishnan
- BridgeTom Leonard
- DestinationJack Teal
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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