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
Reda Galou
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 1 meeting10May 11, 1992View Pete Sampras × Paolo Cane →02 BridgeOpen career →Paolo Cane
1 meeting10August 8, 1984View Paolo Cane × Arafat Chekrouni →03 BridgeOpen career →Arafat Chekrouni
1 meeting01April 4, 1989View Arafat Chekrouni × Reda Galou →04 DestinationOpen career →Reda Galou
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
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- DestinationReda Galou
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndrei Chesnokov
- BridgeTamer El Sawy
- DestinationReda Galou
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeOlivier Delaitre
- BridgeAhmed El Mehelmy
- DestinationReda Galou
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJavier Sanchez
- BridgeTamer El Sawy
- DestinationReda Galou
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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