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
Saad El Ragig
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 meeting10June 14, 1985View Jakob Hlasek × Haroon Ismail →03 BridgeOpen career →Haroon Ismail
1 meeting10March 7, 1986View Haroon Ismail × Saad El Ragig →04 DestinationOpen career →Saad El Ragig
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
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeOrlando Lourenco
- DestinationSaad El Ragig
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarim Alami
- BridgeOrlando Lourenco
- DestinationSaad El Ragig
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- DestinationSaad El Ragig
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeAndres Gomez
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- DestinationSaad El Ragig
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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