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
Khaled Ezankouli
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 7 meetings61August 27, 1990 — August 5, 1996View Pete Sampras × Jakob Hlasek →02 BridgeOpen career →Jakob Hlasek
1 meeting10June 14, 1985View Jakob Hlasek × Haroon Ismail →03 BridgeOpen career →Haroon Ismail
1 meeting10April 8, 1988View Haroon Ismail × Zacharie Moungnol →04 BridgeOpen career →Zacharie Moungnol
1 meeting10April 7, 1989View Zacharie Moungnol × Khaled Ezankouli →05 DestinationOpen career →Khaled Ezankouli
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeKojo Atiso
- BridgeJean Yves Job
- DestinationKhaled Ezankouli
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- BridgeZacharie Moungnol
- DestinationKhaled Ezankouli
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndres Gomez
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- BridgeZacharie Moungnol
- DestinationKhaled Ezankouli
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeDiego Perez
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- BridgeZacharie Moungnol
- DestinationKhaled Ezankouli
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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