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
Khaled Ashkanani
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 meeting10February 2, 1990View Khaled Ashkanani × Samer Mourad →02 BridgeOpen career →Samer Mourad
1 meeting01May 3, 1991View Samer Mourad × Umesha Wallooppillai →03 BridgeOpen career →Umesha Wallooppillai
1 meeting10April 7, 1989View Umesha Wallooppillai × Chang Rung Wu →04 BridgeOpen career →Chang Rung Wu
1 meeting01May 8, 1987View Chang Rung Wu × Kelly Evernden →05 BridgeOpen career →Kelly Evernden
2 meetings11February 12, 1990 — June 18, 1990View Kelly Evernden × 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.
- OriginKhaled Ashkanani
- BridgeSamer Mourad
- BridgeUmesha Wallooppillai
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginKhaled Ashkanani
- BridgeSamer Mourad
- BridgeUmesha Wallooppillai
- BridgeMichael Walker
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginKhaled Ashkanani
- BridgeSamer Mourad
- BridgeUmesha Wallooppillai
- BridgeMichael Walker
- BridgeMartin Damm Sr
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginKhaled Ashkanani
- BridgeSamer Mourad
- BridgeAbdul Rahman Shehab
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- 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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