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
Laurent Bram
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 7 meetings61August 27, 1990 — August 5, 1996View Pete Sampras × Jakob Hlasek →02 BridgeOpen career →Jakob Hlasek
1 meeting10September 20, 1996View Jakob Hlasek × Mehdi Tahiri →03 BridgeOpen career →Mehdi Tahiri
1 meeting10July 15, 2005View Mehdi Tahiri × Laurent Bram →04 DestinationOpen career →Laurent Bram
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
- BridgeHoracio De La Pena
- BridgeMehdi Tahiri
- DestinationLaurent Bram
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeRodolphe Gilbert
- BridgeMehdi Tahiri
- DestinationLaurent Bram
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeAndy Ram
- DestinationLaurent Bram
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeAndreas Seppi
- DestinationLaurent Bram
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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