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
T McCarthy
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 1 meeting01January 1, 1968View T McCarthy × David Morrison →02 BridgeOpen career →David Morrison
1 meeting01January 1, 1968View David Morrison × Bill Bowrey →03 BridgeOpen career →Bill Bowrey
2 meetings02July 6, 1970 — May 15, 1971View Bill Bowrey × Tony Roche →04 BridgeOpen career →Tony Roche
5 meetings05March 4, 1976 — October 31, 1978View Tony Roche × Jimmy Connors →05 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings02March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Jimmy Connors × Pete Sampras →06 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
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.
- OriginT McCarthy
- BridgeDavid Morrison
- BridgeBill Bowrey
- BridgeTony Roche
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginT McCarthy
- BridgeDavid Morrison
- BridgeBill Bowrey
- BridgeMike Belkin
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginT McCarthy
- BridgeDavid Morrison
- BridgeBill Bowrey
- BridgeJoaquin Loyo Mayo
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginT McCarthy
- BridgeDavid Morrison
- BridgeBill Bowrey
- BridgeRichard Russell
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
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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