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
Candy Idoko
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 meeting01July 20, 2007View Candy Idoko × Artem Smirnov →02 BridgeOpen career →Artem Smirnov
1 meeting01April 7, 2017View Artem Smirnov × Joao Sousa →03 BridgeOpen career →Joao Sousa
2 meetings02June 9, 2014 — May 13, 2019View Joao Sousa × Roger Federer →04 DestinationOpen career →Roger 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.
Reverse the route →