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
Mehdi Bouabbane
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 2 meetings11May 6, 1991 — March 27, 1992View Pete Sampras × Karel Novacek →02 BridgeOpen career →Karel Novacek
1 meeting10April 3, 1995View Karel Novacek × Emanuel Couto →03 BridgeOpen career →Emanuel Couto
1 meeting10April 4, 2003View Emanuel Couto × Guillaume Couillard →04 BridgeOpen career →Guillaume Couillard
1 meeting10April 6, 2007View Guillaume Couillard × Mehdi Bouabbane →05 DestinationOpen career →Mehdi Bouabbane
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
- BridgeJeff Tarango
- BridgeEmanuel Couto
- BridgeGuillaume Couillard
- DestinationMehdi Bouabbane
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeEmanuel Couto
- BridgeGuillaume Couillard
- DestinationMehdi Bouabbane
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFrancisco Montana
- BridgeEmanuel Couto
- BridgeGuillaume Couillard
- DestinationMehdi Bouabbane
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeJan Frode Andersen
- BridgeGuillaume Couillard
- DestinationMehdi Bouabbane
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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