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
Joseph Oyebog
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 30, 1990View Joseph Oyebog × Jean Jacques Kouassi →02 BridgeOpen career →Jean Jacques Kouassi
1 meeting10April 8, 1989View Jean Jacques Kouassi × Norbert Oduor →03 BridgeOpen career →Norbert Oduor
1 meeting01January 31, 1992View Norbert Oduor × Dinu Pescariu →04 BridgeOpen career →Dinu Pescariu
1 meeting01January 13, 1997View Dinu Pescariu × Pete Sampras →05 DestinationOpen career →Pete Sampras
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJoseph Oyebog
- BridgeJean Jacques Kouassi
- BridgeEno Polo
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJoseph Oyebog
- BridgeJean Jacques Kouassi
- BridgeEno Polo
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginJoseph Oyebog
- BridgeJean Jacques Kouassi
- BridgeEno Polo
- BridgeDinu Pescariu
- 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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