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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
Frederick Sletting Johnsen
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
01Open career → 1 meeting01July 20, 2007View Frederick Sletting Johnsen × Slimane Saoudi →02 BridgeOpen career →Slimane Saoudi
1 meeting01April 23, 2007View Slimane Saoudi × Dominik Hrbaty →03 BridgeOpen career →Dominik Hrbaty
3 meetings12January 13, 1997 — May 21, 2000View Dominik Hrbaty × Pete Sampras →04 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- BridgeSlimane Saoudi
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeKornel Bardoczky
- BridgeKristian Pless
- 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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