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
Ramin Raziyani
reaches
Pete Sampras
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 1 meeting10April 4, 1997View Ramin Raziyani × Yu Hui Lien →02 BridgeOpen career →Yu Hui Lien
1 meeting01October 19, 1992View Yu Hui Lien × Brett Steven →03 BridgeOpen career →Brett Steven
2 meetings11January 18, 1993 — July 26, 1993View Brett Steven × Pete Sampras →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRamin Raziyani
- BridgeNaratorn Srichaphan
- BridgeLeander Paes
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRamin Raziyani
- BridgeChih Jung Chen
- BridgeJason Stoltenberg
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRamin Raziyani
- BridgeChia Yen Tsai
- BridgeBrett Steven
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginRamin Raziyani
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgeRoger Federer
- 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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