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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
Pete Sampras
reaches
Kyrian Nwokedi
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10August 6, 1990View Pete Sampras × Jim Pugh →02 BridgeOpen career →Jim Pugh
1 meeting01August 17, 1987View Jim Pugh × Nduka Odizor →03 BridgeOpen career →Nduka Odizor
1 meeting10March 29, 1991View Nduka Odizor × Fred Kangwa →04 BridgeOpen career →Fred Kangwa
1 meeting10March 29, 1991View Fred Kangwa × Kyrian Nwokedi →05 DestinationOpen career →Kyrian Nwokedi
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeFred Kangwa
- DestinationKyrian Nwokedi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeFred Kangwa
- DestinationKyrian Nwokedi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeFred Kangwa
- DestinationKyrian Nwokedi
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeKarel Novacek
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeFred Kangwa
- DestinationKyrian Nwokedi
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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