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
Abdul Mumin Babalola
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01April 6, 2007View Abdul Mumin Babalola × Mariusz Fyrstenberg →02 BridgeOpen career →Mariusz Fyrstenberg
1 meeting01August 1, 2005View Mariusz Fyrstenberg × Carlos Moya →03 BridgeOpen career →Carlos Moya
7 meetings07February 1, 1999 — May 14, 2007View Carlos Moya × Roger Federer →04 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAbdul Mumin Babalola
- BridgeMariusz Fyrstenberg
- BridgeDominik Hrbaty
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbdul Mumin Babalola
- BridgeMariusz Fyrstenberg
- BridgeWesley Moodie
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbdul Mumin Babalola
- BridgeMariusz Fyrstenberg
- BridgePotito Starace
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbdul Mumin Babalola
- BridgeDawid Olejniczak
- BridgePotito Starace
- DestinationRoger Federer
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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