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
Carlos Lopez
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 meeting01September 25, 1978View Carlos Lopez × Sashi Menon →02 BridgeOpen career →Sashi Menon
1 meeting01November 15, 1982View Sashi Menon × Jonathan Canter →03 BridgeOpen career →Jonathan Canter
1 meeting10August 14, 1989View Jonathan Canter × Goran Ivanisevic →04 BridgeOpen career →Goran Ivanisevic
2 meetings02February 21, 2000 — January 29, 2001View Goran Ivanisevic × 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.
- OriginCarlos Lopez
- BridgeSashi Menon
- BridgeJonathan Canter
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCarlos Lopez
- BridgeSashi Menon
- BridgeJohn Frawley
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCarlos Lopez
- BridgeSashi Menon
- BridgeJohn Frawley
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCarlos Lopez
- BridgeSashi Menon
- BridgeJohn Frawley
- BridgeMichael Chang
- 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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