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
Mansur Yakhyaev
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 4, 2003View Mansur Yakhyaev × Anoosha Shahgholi →02 BridgeOpen career →Anoosha Shahgholi
1 meeting01February 9, 2001View Anoosha Shahgholi × Michael Brown B395 →03 BridgeOpen career →Michael Brown B395
1 meeting01January 15, 1990View Michael Brown B395 × Karel Novacek →04 BridgeOpen career →Karel Novacek
2 meetings11May 6, 1991 — March 27, 1992View Karel Novacek × 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.
- OriginMansur Yakhyaev
- BridgeAnoosha Shahgholi
- BridgeJicham Zaatini
- BridgeLeander Paes
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMansur Yakhyaev
- BridgeAnoosha Shahgholi
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMansur Yakhyaev
- BridgeAnoosha Shahgholi
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginMansur Yakhyaev
- BridgeAnoosha Shahgholi
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeCarlos Moya
- 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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