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
Abdullah Al Khalil
reaches
Roger Federer
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
01 1 meeting01February 3, 1989View Abdullah Al Khalil × Khaled Al Foudari →02 BridgeOpen career →Khaled Al Foudari
1 meeting01February 3, 1989View Khaled Al Foudari × Hani Al Ali →03 BridgeOpen career →Hani Al Ali
1 meeting01February 2, 1990View Hani Al Ali × Selvam Veerasingam →04 BridgeOpen career →Selvam Veerasingam
1 meeting01April 6, 2001View Selvam Veerasingam × Yen Hsun Lu →05 BridgeOpen career →Yen Hsun Lu
3 meetings03June 22, 2009 — January 19, 2015View Yen Hsun Lu × Roger Federer →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAbdullah Al Khalil
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbdullah Al Khalil
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbdullah Al Khalil
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbdullah Al Khalil
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- 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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