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
Haibibi Bouchaib
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 meeting01March 13, 1989View Pete Sampras × Miloslav Mecir →02 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
1 meeting10October 3, 1983View Miloslav Mecir × Manuel Orantes →03 BridgeOpen career →Manuel Orantes
1 meeting10June 14, 1972View Manuel Orantes × Francisco Truchi →04 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Truchi
1 meeting10April 28, 1972View Francisco Truchi × Jean Neuman →05 BridgeOpen career →Jean Neuman
1 meeting01November 10, 1972View Jean Neuman × Haibibi Bouchaib →06 DestinationOpen career →Haibibi Bouchaib
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
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- BridgeMichael Hickey
- BridgeJean Neuman
- DestinationHaibibi Bouchaib
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- BridgePeter Jackson
- BridgeJean Neuman
- DestinationHaibibi Bouchaib
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeYassine Amier
- BridgeOmar Laimina
- BridgeJean Neuman
- DestinationHaibibi Bouchaib
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeTony Roche
- BridgeMichael Hickey
- BridgeJean Neuman
- DestinationHaibibi Bouchaib
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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