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
Doug Bohaboy
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01September 30, 2002View Doug Bohaboy × Michael Kohlmann →02 BridgeOpen career →Michael Kohlmann
1 meeting01October 5, 1998View Michael Kohlmann × Karsten Braasch →03 BridgeOpen career →Karsten Braasch
1 meeting01June 26, 1995View Karsten Braasch × Pete Sampras →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginDoug Bohaboy
- BridgeMichael Kohlmann
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDoug Bohaboy
- BridgeMichael Kohlmann
- BridgeJeff Tarango
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDoug Bohaboy
- BridgeMichael Kohlmann
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginDoug Bohaboy
- BridgeMichael Kohlmann
- BridgeWayne Arthurs
- 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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