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
Puriwat Chatpatcharoen
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 meeting01March 4, 2016View Puriwat Chatpatcharoen × Sharmal Dissanayake →02 BridgeOpen career →Sharmal Dissanayake
1 meeting01March 4, 2016View Sharmal Dissanayake × Pruchya Isarow →03 BridgeOpen career →Pruchya Isarow
1 meeting10February 14, 2014View Pruchya Isarow × Phillip King →04 BridgeOpen career →Phillip King
1 meeting01July 26, 1999View Phillip King × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
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.
- OriginPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- BridgePruchya Isarow
- BridgePhillip King
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeLeander Paes
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginPuriwat Chatpatcharoen
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- DestinationPete Sampras
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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