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
Samson Ahinakwa
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 meeting10June 16, 1989View Samson Ahinakwa × Lionel Kemajou →02 BridgeOpen career →Lionel Kemajou
1 meeting01March 30, 1990View Lionel Kemajou × Clement Ngoran →03 BridgeOpen career →Clement Ngoran
1 meeting01October 2, 1995View Clement Ngoran × Richey Reneberg →04 BridgeOpen career →Richey Reneberg
8 meetings26March 5, 1990 — June 24, 1996View Richey Reneberg × Pete Sampras →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSamson Ahinakwa
- BridgeLionel Kemajou
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSamson Ahinakwa
- BridgeLionel Kemajou
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- BridgeSteve Bryan
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSamson Ahinakwa
- BridgeLionel Kemajou
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- BridgeKelly Evernden
- DestinationPete Sampras
- OriginSamson Ahinakwa
- BridgeLionel Kemajou
- BridgeKojo Atiso
- 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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