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
Luis Felipe Silva
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 meeting01September 15, 1978View Luis Felipe Silva × Tarek El Sakka →02 BridgeOpen career →Tarek El Sakka
1 meeting10May 10, 1985View Tarek El Sakka × Kamel Harrad →03 BridgeOpen career →Kamel Harrad
1 meeting01May 4, 1984View Kamel Harrad × Emilio Sanchez →04 BridgeOpen career →Emilio Sanchez
3 meetings12February 29, 1988 — February 28, 1994View Emilio Sanchez × Pete Sampras →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginLuis Felipe Silva
- BridgeTarek El Sakka
- BridgeHans Kary
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuis Felipe Silva
- BridgeTarek El Sakka
- BridgeHans Kary
- BridgeWolfgang Popp
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuis Felipe Silva
- BridgeTarek El Sakka
- BridgeJiri Hrebec
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginLuis Felipe Silva
- BridgeTarek El Sakka
- BridgeJiri Hrebec
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- 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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