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
Ken Kelleher
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 2 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
1 meeting10December 19, 1975View Jimmy Connors × Marcello Lara →03 BridgeOpen career →Marcello Lara
1 meeting10July 9, 1973View Marcello Lara × Ricky Buwalda →04 BridgeOpen career →Ricky Buwalda
1 meeting10July 9, 1973View Ricky Buwalda × Ken Kelleher →05 DestinationOpen career →Ken Kelleher
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
- BridgeJurgen Fassbender
- BridgeRicky Buwalda
- DestinationKen Kelleher
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeBob Carmichael
- BridgeRicky Buwalda
- DestinationKen Kelleher
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeFrew Mcmillan
- BridgeRicky Buwalda
- DestinationKen Kelleher
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeAlex Metreveli
- BridgeRicky Buwalda
- DestinationKen Kelleher
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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