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
Chareonchai Tritilinant
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 meeting01March 8, 1985View Chareonchai Tritilinant × Rodrigo Rafael →02 BridgeOpen career →Rodrigo Rafael
1 meeting10January 18, 1985View Rodrigo Rafael × Adam Malik →03 BridgeOpen career →Adam Malik
1 meeting01October 2, 1995View Adam Malik × Richard Krajicek →04 BridgeOpen career →Richard Krajicek
2 meetings02October 9, 2000 — June 17, 2002View Richard Krajicek × 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.
- OriginChareonchai Tritilinant
- BridgeRodrigo Rafael
- BridgeAdam Malik
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChareonchai Tritilinant
- BridgeRaymond Suarez
- BridgeToshihisa Tsuchihashi
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChareonchai Tritilinant
- BridgeRaymond Suarez
- BridgeBong Soo Kim
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChareonchai Tritilinant
- BridgeRaymond Suarez
- BridgeBong Soo Kim
- BridgeRichard Krajicek
- 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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