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
Craig Gold
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01April 5, 1971View Craig Gold × Piet Snyman →02 BridgeOpen career →Piet Snyman
1 meeting01April 5, 1971View Piet Snyman × Cliff Drysdale →03 BridgeOpen career →Cliff Drysdale
4 meetings22February 10, 1975 — March 9, 1976View Cliff Drysdale × Vijay Amritraj →04 BridgeOpen career →Vijay Amritraj
1 meeting10April 10, 1989View Vijay Amritraj × Gianluca Pozzi →05 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Gianluca Pozzi × Roger Federer →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCraig Gold
- BridgePiet Snyman
- BridgeCliff Drysdale
- BridgeJohn Austin
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCraig Gold
- BridgePiet Snyman
- BridgeCliff Drysdale
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- BridgePete Sampras
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCraig Gold
- BridgePiet Snyman
- BridgeCliff Drysdale
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgePete Sampras
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginCraig Gold
- BridgeMark Shires
- BridgeJan Kodes
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- 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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