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
T Ellis
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
3 meetings30February 28, 1972 — November 17, 1973View Jimmy Connors × Gerald Battrick →03 BridgeOpen career →Gerald Battrick
1 meeting10November 11, 1968View Gerald Battrick × Geoff Bluett →04 BridgeOpen career →Geoff Bluett
1 meeting10June 3, 1968View Geoff Bluett × T Ellis →05 DestinationOpen career →T Ellis
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
- BridgeDavid Lloyd
- BridgeGeoff Bluett
- DestinationT Ellis
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeKen Rosewall
- BridgeGeoff Bluett
- DestinationT Ellis
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeDavid Lloyd
- BridgeGeoff Bluett
- DestinationT Ellis
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgeKen Rosewall
- BridgeGeoff Bluett
- DestinationT Ellis
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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