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
Usman Rahim
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 2 meetings11January 18, 1993 — July 26, 1993View Pete Sampras × Brett Steven →02 BridgeOpen career →Brett Steven
1 meeting10October 19, 1992View Brett Steven × Yu Hui Lien →03 BridgeOpen career →Yu Hui Lien
1 meeting10March 30, 1990View Yu Hui Lien × Faisal Rahman →04 BridgeOpen career →Faisal Rahman
1 meeting01June 16, 1989View Faisal Rahman × Usman Rahim →05 DestinationOpen career →Usman Rahim
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKelly Evernden
- BridgeChung Hsing Liu
- BridgeFaisal Rahman
- DestinationUsman Rahim
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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