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
Neil Rajapakse
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 meeting01June 16, 1989View Neil Rajapakse × Tanakorn Srichaphan →02 BridgeOpen career →Tanakorn Srichaphan
1 meeting01September 30, 1996View Tanakorn Srichaphan × Andrei Olhovskiy →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Olhovskiy
2 meetings02August 14, 1989 — April 4, 1994View Andrei Olhovskiy × Pete Sampras →04 DestinationOpen career →Pete 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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