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
B Renault
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 meeting01December 29, 1977View B Renault × Jacek Niedzwiedzki →02 BridgeOpen career →Jacek Niedzwiedzki
1 meeting10September 20, 1974View Jacek Niedzwiedzki × Jose Vilela →03 BridgeOpen career →Jose Vilela
1 meeting01September 14, 1979View Jose Vilela × Marko Ostoja →04 BridgeOpen career →Marko Ostoja
1 meeting01July 31, 1989View Marko Ostoja × Sergi Bruguera →05 BridgeOpen career →Sergi Bruguera
1 meeting10April 24, 2000View Sergi Bruguera × 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.
- OriginB Renault
- BridgeJacek Niedzwiedzki
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginB Renault
- BridgeJacek Niedzwiedzki
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginB Renault
- BridgeJacek Niedzwiedzki
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginB Renault
- BridgeJacek Niedzwiedzki
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- 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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