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
Abdullah Al Khalil
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 meetings20August 14, 1989 — April 4, 1994View Pete Sampras × Andrei Olhovskiy →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Olhovskiy
1 meeting10September 30, 1996View Andrei Olhovskiy × Tanakorn Srichaphan →03 BridgeOpen career →Tanakorn Srichaphan
1 meeting10March 30, 1990View Tanakorn Srichaphan × Khaled Al Foudari →04 BridgeOpen career →Khaled Al Foudari
1 meeting10February 3, 1989View Khaled Al Foudari × Abdullah Al Khalil →05 DestinationOpen career →Abdullah Al Khalil
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeWorapol Thongkamcho
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- DestinationAbdullah Al Khalil
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeWorapol Thongkamcho
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- DestinationAbdullah Al Khalil
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKelly Evernden
- BridgeWorapol Thongkamcho
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- DestinationAbdullah Al Khalil
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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