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
Walter Hodsdon
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 meeting10April 17, 1970View Allan Stone × Koji Watanabe →04 BridgeOpen career →Koji Watanabe
1 meeting10December 30, 1968View Koji Watanabe × R Campbell →05 BridgeOpen career →R Campbell
1 meeting10December 30, 1968View R Campbell × Walter Hodsdon →06 DestinationOpen career →Walter Hodsdon
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
- BridgeSutarjo Sugiarto
- BridgeR Campbell
- DestinationWalter Hodsdon
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeRaymond Moore
- BridgeKoji Watanabe
- BridgeR Campbell
- DestinationWalter Hodsdon
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeJan Kodes
- BridgeSutarjo Sugiarto
- BridgeR Campbell
- DestinationWalter Hodsdon
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeJan Kodes
- BridgeSutarjo Sugiarto
- BridgeR Campbell
- DestinationWalter Hodsdon
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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