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
Christian Bemba
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 meeting01February 1, 1991View Christian Bemba × Norbert Oduor →02 BridgeOpen career →Norbert Oduor
1 meeting01February 5, 1988View Norbert Oduor × Frank Ofori →03 BridgeOpen career →Frank Ofori
1 meeting01May 1, 1992View Frank Ofori × 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.
- OriginChristian Bemba
- BridgeNorbert Oduor
- BridgeDinu Pescariu
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristian Bemba
- BridgeNorbert Oduor
- BridgeDinu Pescariu
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristian Bemba
- BridgeNorbert Oduor
- BridgeDinu Pescariu
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristian Bemba
- BridgeNorbert Oduor
- BridgeDinu Pescariu
- BridgePete Sampras
- 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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