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
Alan Frey
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 meeting01November 9, 1970View Alan Frey × Ian Pomerenke →02 BridgeOpen career →Ian Pomerenke
1 meeting01November 9, 1970View Ian Pomerenke × Colin Dibley →03 BridgeOpen career →Colin Dibley
10 meetings19September 1, 1971 — August 13, 1979View Colin Dibley × Jimmy Connors →04 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
1 meeting10May 15, 1989View Jimmy Connors × Cedric Pioline →05 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01September 13, 1999View Cedric Pioline × 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.
- OriginAlan Frey
- BridgeIan Pomerenke
- BridgeColin Dibley
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAlan Frey
- BridgeIan Pomerenke
- BridgeColin Dibley
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAlan Frey
- BridgeIan Pomerenke
- BridgeColin Dibley
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeTodd Martin
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAlan Frey
- BridgeIan Pomerenke
- BridgeColin Dibley
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- 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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