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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Pete Sampras
reaches
Tom James

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

2,573 players examined
  1. 9 meetings54March 16, 1990 — April 15, 1996
    View Pete Sampras × Guy Forget →
  2. 1 meeting10November 8, 1982
    View Guy Forget × Andrew Pattison →
  3. 1 meeting10September 18, 1978
    View Andrew Pattison × Joe Bouquin →
  4. 1 meeting10April 6, 1970
    View Joe Bouquin × Tom James →

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.

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.

Reverse the route →