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
Choon Ho Kim
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 3 meetings21August 28, 1989 — September 22, 1995View Pete Sampras × Mats Wilander →02 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
5 meetings41September 14, 1981 — March 28, 1983View Mats Wilander × Corrado Barazzutti →03 BridgeOpen career →Corrado Barazzutti
1 meeting01October 2, 1981View Corrado Barazzutti × Choon Ho Kim →04 DestinationOpen career →Choon Ho Kim
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
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeJustedjo Tarik
- DestinationChoon Ho Kim
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeTintus Arianto Wibowo
- DestinationChoon Ho Kim
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeTom Nijssen
- BridgeTintus Arianto Wibowo
- DestinationChoon Ho Kim
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeCorrado Barazzutti
- DestinationChoon Ho Kim
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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