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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Pete Sampras
reaches
Sean Karam

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

2,565 players examined
  1. 2 meetings20August 28, 2000 — July 29, 2002
    View Pete Sampras × Hyung Taik Lee →
  2. 2 meetings20February 9, 1996 — April 6, 2001
    View Hyung Taik Lee × Andrian Raturandang →
  3. 1 meeting10July 17, 1998
    View Andrian Raturandang × Sean Karam →

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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