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
Cevdet Cika
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 meeting01August 27, 1977View Cevdet Cika × Mohamed Dlimi →02 BridgeOpen career →Mohamed Dlimi
1 meeting10March 7, 1986View Mohamed Dlimi × Eno Polo →03 BridgeOpen career →Eno Polo
1 meeting01March 13, 1987View Eno Polo × Byron Black →04 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting10June 7, 1999View Byron Black × 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.
- OriginCevdet Cika
- BridgeMohamed Dlimi
- BridgeEno Polo
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCevdet Cika
- BridgeMohamed Dlimi
- BridgeAbou Berthe
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCevdet Cika
- BridgeMohamed Dlimi
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCevdet Cika
- BridgeMohamed Dlimi
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- 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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