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
Alexander Ofori
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 meeting01May 2, 1997View Alexander Ofori × Filip Aniola →02 BridgeOpen career →Filip Aniola
1 meeting10May 2, 1997View Filip Aniola × Frank Ofori →03 BridgeOpen career →Frank Ofori
1 meeting01May 1, 1992View Frank Ofori × Byron Black →04 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
6 meetings06June 21, 1993 — March 4, 2002View Byron Black × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
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.
- OriginAlexander Ofori
- BridgeFilip Aniola
- BridgeFrank Ofori
- BridgeNuno Marques
- 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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