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
K Stevens
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 2 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings20August 17, 1970 — September 20, 1971View Jimmy Connors × Allan Stone →03 BridgeOpen career →Allan Stone
1 meeting10September 1, 1971View Allan Stone × John Clifton →04 BridgeOpen career →John Clifton
1 meeting10June 3, 1974View John Clifton × D Beasant →05— BridgeOpen career →D Beasant
1 meeting10June 3, 1974View D Beasant × K Stevens →06— DestinationOpen career →K Stevens
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
- BridgeJan Kodes
- BridgeJohn Clifton
- —BridgeD Beasant
- —DestinationK Stevens
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeJohn Clifton
- —BridgeD Beasant
- —DestinationK Stevens
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeJohn Clifton
- —BridgeD Beasant
- —DestinationK Stevens
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeYannick Noah
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeJohn Clifton
- —BridgeD Beasant
- —DestinationK Stevens
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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