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
Barunur Rashid Bhuiyan
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 1 meeting01April 7, 1989View Barunur Rashid Bhuiyan × Sunny Liu →02 BridgeOpen career →Sunny Liu
1 meeting01February 2, 1990View Sunny Liu × Yu Hui Lien →03 BridgeOpen career →Yu Hui Lien
1 meeting01October 19, 1992View Yu Hui Lien × Brett Steven →04 BridgeOpen career →Brett Steven
2 meetings11January 18, 1993 — July 26, 1993View Brett Steven × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete 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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