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
Christopher Bulus
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 meeting10February 1, 2025View Christopher Bulus × Kris Van Wyk →02 BridgeOpen career →Kris Van Wyk
1 meeting01February 4, 2023View Kris Van Wyk × Alex Knaff →03 BridgeOpen career →Alex Knaff
1 meeting01March 4, 2016View Alex Knaff × Lloyd Harris →04 BridgeOpen career →Lloyd Harris
1 meeting01July 1, 2019View Lloyd Harris × 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.
- OriginChristopher Bulus
- BridgePhilip Henning
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- BridgeStan Wawrinka
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristopher Bulus
- BridgePhilip Henning
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- BridgeYoshihito Nishioka
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristopher Bulus
- BridgePhilip Henning
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- BridgeBorna Coric
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginChristopher Bulus
- BridgePhilip Henning
- BridgeAlexandar Lazarov
- BridgeFernando Verdasco
- 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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