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
Gordon Sawyer
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 meeting01September 22, 1968View Gordon Sawyer × Don Gale →02 BridgeOpen career →Don Gale
1 meeting01September 22, 1968View Don Gale × Roy Barth →03 BridgeOpen career →Roy Barth
1 meeting01August 29, 1973View Roy Barth × Bjorn Borg →04 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Borg
1 meeting01April 20, 1992View Bjorn Borg × Wayne Ferreira →05 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
3 meetings21January 8, 2001 — October 15, 2001View Wayne Ferreira × 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.
- OriginGordon Sawyer
- BridgeDon Gale
- BridgeRoy Barth
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginGordon Sawyer
- BridgeDon Gale
- BridgeErik Van Dillen
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginGordon Sawyer
- BridgeDon Gale
- BridgeErik Van Dillen
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginGordon Sawyer
- BridgeDon Gale
- BridgeErik Van Dillen
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- 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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