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
Young Jun Kim
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 6 meetings60June 21, 1993 — March 4, 2002View Pete Sampras × Byron Black →02 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting10October 16, 2000View Byron Black × Ben Qiang Zhu →03 BridgeOpen career →Ben Qiang Zhu
1 meeting10September 24, 2004View Ben Qiang Zhu × Young Jun Kim →04 DestinationOpen career →Young Jun Kim
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
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- DestinationYoung Jun Kim
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- DestinationYoung Jun Kim
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeBen Qiang Zhu
- DestinationYoung Jun Kim
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- DestinationYoung Jun Kim
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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