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
Mohammed Rahizam Abdul Rahim
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 8 meetings62March 5, 1990 — June 24, 1996View Pete Sampras × Richey Reneberg →02 BridgeOpen career →Richey Reneberg
1 meeting10January 4, 1993View Richey Reneberg × Ramayah Ramachandran →03 BridgeOpen career →Ramayah Ramachandran
2 meetings20January 31, 1992 — March 26, 1993View Ramayah Ramachandran × Hani Al Ali →04 BridgeOpen career →Hani Al Ali
1 meeting10January 31, 1992View Hani Al Ali × Mohammed Rahizam Abdul Rahim →05 DestinationOpen career →Mohammed Rahizam Abdul Rahim
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAlex Antonitsch
- BridgeRamayah Ramachandran
- BridgeHani Al Ali
- DestinationMohammed Rahizam Abdul Rahim
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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