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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
Puriwat Chatpatcharoen
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 OriginOpen career →10 meetings91June 6, 1994 — June 26, 2000View Pete Sampras × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
1 meeting10June 14, 2004View Jonas Bjorkman × Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi →03 BridgeOpen career →Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi
1 meeting01February 1, 2013View Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi × Harshana Godamanna →04 BridgeOpen career →Harshana Godamanna
1 meeting10March 4, 2016View Harshana Godamanna × Puriwat Chatpatcharoen →05 DestinationOpen career →Puriwat Chatpatcharoen
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- DestinationPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- DestinationPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeKarim Alayli
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- DestinationPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeDaniel King Turner
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- DestinationPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
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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