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
Farah Al Somali
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 5 meetings41July 22, 1991 — June 26, 1995View Pete Sampras × Shuzo Matsuoka →02 BridgeOpen career →Shuzo Matsuoka
1 meeting10March 31, 1995View Shuzo Matsuoka × Melvin Tong →03 BridgeOpen career →Melvin Tong
1 meeting10April 4, 1997View Melvin Tong × Farah Al Somali →04 DestinationOpen career →Farah Al Somali
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMichael Chang
- BridgeMelvin Tong
- DestinationFarah Al Somali
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeMelvin Tong
- DestinationFarah Al Somali
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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