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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
Kodjo Charles Alipoe Tchotchodji
reaches
Pete Sampras
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01Open career → 1 meeting01September 13, 2025View Kodjo Charles Alipoe Tchotchodji × Faris Zakaryia →02 BridgeOpen career →Faris Zakaryia
1 meeting01September 13, 2024View Faris Zakaryia × Mate Valkusz →03 BridgeOpen career →Mate Valkusz
1 meeting01September 14, 2018View Mate Valkusz × Lukas Rosol →04 BridgeOpen career →Lukas Rosol
1 meeting01October 14, 2013View Lukas Rosol × Tommy Haas →05 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
8 meetings35August 12, 1996 — August 26, 2002View Tommy Haas × Pete Sampras →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- BridgeFaris Zakaryia
- BridgeMate Valkusz
- BridgeLukas Rosol
- BridgeJuan Ignacio Chela
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeFaris Zakaryia
- BridgeMate Valkusz
- BridgeLukas Rosol
- BridgeMichael Llodra
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeFaris Zakaryia
- BridgeMate Valkusz
- BridgeLukas Rosol
- BridgeLleyton Hewitt
- DestinationPete Sampras
- BridgeFaris Zakaryia
- BridgeMate Valkusz
- BridgeLukas Rosol
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- 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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