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
Brian Hung
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01August 17, 1998View Pete Sampras × Leander Paes →02 BridgeOpen career →Leander Paes
1 meeting10April 7, 2006View Leander Paes × Aqeel Khan →03 BridgeOpen career →Aqeel Khan
1 meeting10April 6, 2007View Aqeel Khan × Juan Sebastian Langton →04 BridgeOpen career →Juan Sebastian Langton
1 meeting10April 11, 2008View Juan Sebastian Langton × Sulaiman Al Rawahi →05 BridgeOpen career →Sulaiman Al Rawahi
1 meeting01July 10, 2009View Sulaiman Al Rawahi × Brian Hung →06 DestinationOpen career →Brian Hung
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeKarim Alayli
- BridgeJuan Sebastian Langton
- BridgeSulaiman Al Rawahi
- DestinationBrian Hung
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgePatrick Chucri
- BridgeJuan Sebastian Langton
- BridgeSulaiman Al Rawahi
- DestinationBrian Hung
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeJuan Sebastian Langton
- BridgeSulaiman Al Rawahi
- DestinationBrian Hung
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRoger Federer
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgeJuan Sebastian Langton
- BridgeSulaiman Al Rawahi
- DestinationBrian Hung
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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