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
Sebastien Hette
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 meeting01January 10, 1994View Sebastien Hette × Marcelo Charpentier →02 BridgeOpen career →Marcelo Charpentier
1 meeting01August 14, 1995View Marcelo Charpentier × Jakob Hlasek →03 BridgeOpen career →Jakob Hlasek
7 meetings16August 27, 1990 — August 5, 1996View Jakob Hlasek × 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.
- OriginSebastien Hette
- BridgeMarcelo Charpentier
- BridgePaul Haarhuis
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSebastien Hette
- BridgeMarcelo Charpentier
- BridgeThierry Champion
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSebastien Hette
- BridgeMarcelo Charpentier
- BridgeJavier Frana
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSebastien Hette
- BridgeMarcelo Charpentier
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- 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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