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
D J Hardman
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 meeting01June 4, 1973View D J Hardman × Emilio Montano →02 BridgeOpen career →Emilio Montano
2 meetings02September 16, 1976 — October 1, 1979View Emilio Montano × Vijay Amritraj →03 BridgeOpen career →Vijay Amritraj
1 meeting10April 10, 1989View Vijay Amritraj × Gianluca Pozzi →04 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Gianluca Pozzi × 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.
- OriginD J Hardman
- BridgeEmilio Montano
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginD J Hardman
- BridgeEmilio Montano
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginD J Hardman
- BridgeEmilio Montano
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgePete Sampras
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginD J Hardman
- BridgeEmilio Montano
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- 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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