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
Ergun Zorlu
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 meeting01July 9, 2010View Ergun Zorlu × Jamie Baker →02 BridgeOpen career →Jamie Baker
1 meeting01June 23, 2008View Jamie Baker × Stefano Galvani →03 BridgeOpen career →Stefano Galvani
1 meeting01May 28, 2001View Stefano Galvani × 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.
- OriginErgun Zorlu
- BridgeJamie Baker
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginErgun Zorlu
- BridgeJamie Baker
- BridgeMardy Fish
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginErgun Zorlu
- BridgeJamie Baker
- BridgeDavid Nalbandian
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginErgun Zorlu
- BridgeJamie Baker
- BridgeAndy Roddick
- 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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