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 Hohnhold
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 meeting01October 30, 1976View Christian Hohnhold × Carlos Alvarado →02 BridgeOpen career →Carlos Alvarado
1 meeting01February 5, 1988View Carlos Alvarado × Mario Tabares →03 BridgeOpen career →Mario Tabares
1 meeting01September 24, 1993View Mario Tabares × Yevgeny Kafelnikov →04 BridgeOpen career →Yevgeny Kafelnikov
6 meetings42February 15, 1999 — February 8, 2002View Yevgeny Kafelnikov × Roger Federer →05 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginChristian Hohnhold
- BridgeCarlos Alvarado
- BridgeCassio Motta
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristian Hohnhold
- BridgeCarlos Alvarado
- BridgeCassio Motta
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristian Hohnhold
- BridgeCarlos Alvarado
- BridgeCassio Motta
- 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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