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
Samir El Khoury
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 1 meeting10August 6, 1990View Pete Sampras × Jim Pugh →02 BridgeOpen career →Jim Pugh
1 meeting10July 4, 1988View Jim Pugh × Mansour Bahrami →03 BridgeOpen career →Mansour Bahrami
1 meeting10October 3, 1977View Mansour Bahrami × Omar Laimina →04 BridgeOpen career →Omar Laimina
1 meeting10May 1, 1972View Omar Laimina × Samir El Khoury →05 DestinationOpen career →Samir El Khoury
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
- BridgeGoran Prpic
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeAhmed Ben Omar
- DestinationSamir El Khoury
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGoran Prpic
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeOmar Laimina
- DestinationSamir El Khoury
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeHeinz Gunthardt
- BridgeOmar Laimina
- DestinationSamir El Khoury
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeRoland Stadler
- BridgeOmar Laimina
- DestinationSamir El Khoury
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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