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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
Pavel Snobel
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01January 16, 2006View Pavel Snobel × Raemon Sluiter →02 BridgeOpen career →Raemon Sluiter
1 meeting01June 10, 1996View Raemon Sluiter × Jakob Hlasek →03 BridgeOpen career →Jakob Hlasek
7 meetings16August 27, 1990 — August 5, 1996View Jakob Hlasek × Pete Sampras →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPavel Snobel
- BridgeRaemon Sluiter
- BridgeMagnus Gustafsson
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginPavel Snobel
- BridgeRaemon Sluiter
- BridgeBrett Steven
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginPavel Snobel
- BridgeRaemon Sluiter
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginPavel Snobel
- BridgeRaemon Sluiter
- BridgeRenzo Furlan
- 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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