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
Christo Steyn
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10June 22, 1987View Christo Steyn × Carl Limberger →02 BridgeOpen career →Carl Limberger
2 meetings11April 24, 1989 — May 25, 1992View Carl Limberger × Goran Ivanisevic →03 BridgeOpen career →Goran Ivanisevic
2 meetings02February 21, 2000 — January 29, 2001View Goran Ivanisevic × Roger Federer →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginChristo Steyn
- BridgeCarl Limberger
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristo Steyn
- BridgeJohn Ross
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristo Steyn
- BridgeJim Grabb
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristo Steyn
- BridgeJim Grabb
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- 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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