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
Ariez Elyaas Deen Heshaam
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 7 meetings61April 4, 1994 — August 7, 2000View Pete Sampras × Tim Henman →02 BridgeOpen career →Tim Henman
1 meeting10April 6, 2007View Tim Henman × Igor Sijsling →03 BridgeOpen career →Igor Sijsling
1 meeting10September 24, 2012View Igor Sijsling × Ariez Elyaas Deen Heshaam →04 DestinationOpen career →Ariez Elyaas Deen Heshaam
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.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTommy Haas
- BridgeIgor Sijsling
- DestinationAriez Elyaas Deen Heshaam
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeOlivier Rochus
- BridgeIgor Sijsling
- DestinationAriez Elyaas Deen Heshaam
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeIgor Sijsling
- DestinationAriez Elyaas Deen Heshaam
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgePhillip King
- BridgeChristopher Rungkat
- DestinationAriez Elyaas Deen Heshaam
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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