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
Pete Sampras
reaches
Abdul Rahman Bakar
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 2 meetings20March 13, 1992 — April 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Jimmy Connors →02 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
4 meetings40January 21, 1972 — February 12, 1979View Jimmy Connors × Vladimir Zednik →03 BridgeOpen career →Vladimir Zednik
1 meeting10June 25, 1973View Vladimir Zednik × Gaurav Misra →04 BridgeOpen career →Gaurav Misra
1 meeting10March 1, 1969View Gaurav Misra × Abdul Rahman Bakar →05 DestinationOpen career →Abdul Rahman Bakar
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePat Cramer
- BridgeGaurav Misra
- DestinationAbdul Rahman Bakar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePaul Gerken
- BridgeGaurav Misra
- DestinationAbdul Rahman Bakar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeDick Bohrnstedt
- BridgeGaurav Misra
- DestinationAbdul Rahman Bakar
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJeff Simpson
- BridgeGaurav Misra
- DestinationAbdul Rahman Bakar
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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