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
Roger Federer
reaches
Joseph Oyebog
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 meeting01June 7, 1999View Roger Federer × Byron Black →02 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting10March 13, 1987View Byron Black × Eno Polo →03 BridgeOpen career →Eno Polo
1 meeting10April 8, 1989View Eno Polo × Jean Jacques Kouassi →04 BridgeOpen career →Jean Jacques Kouassi
1 meeting10March 30, 1990View Jean Jacques Kouassi × Joseph Oyebog →05 DestinationOpen career →Joseph Oyebog
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.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeEno Polo
- BridgeJean Jacques Kouassi
- DestinationJoseph Oyebog
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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