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
Abraham Sojo
reaches
Roger Federer
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 meeting01January 15, 1982View Abraham Sojo × Bill Cowan →02 BridgeOpen career →Bill Cowan
1 meeting01November 15, 1982View Bill Cowan × Glenn Michibata →03 BridgeOpen career →Glenn Michibata
1 meeting01August 14, 1989View Glenn Michibata × Richard Fromberg →04 BridgeOpen career →Richard Fromberg
2 meetings11September 28, 1998 — June 19, 2000View Richard Fromberg × Roger Federer →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAbraham Sojo
- BridgeBill Cowan
- BridgeGlenn Michibata
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbraham Sojo
- BridgeBill Cowan
- BridgeGlenn Michibata
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbraham Sojo
- BridgeBill Cowan
- BridgeGreg Holmes
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAbraham Sojo
- BridgeOrlando Agudelo
- BridgeJaime Yzaga
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- 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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