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
Graham Silberman
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 meeting01November 23, 1976View Graham Silberman × Rory Chappell →02 BridgeOpen career →Rory Chappell
3 meetings03April 18, 1977 — April 20, 1981View Rory Chappell × Victor Pecci →03 BridgeOpen career →Victor Pecci
1 meeting01February 3, 1989View Victor Pecci × Michael Chang →04 BridgeOpen career →Michael Chang
5 meetings14January 17, 2000 — August 26, 2002View Michael Chang × 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.
- OriginGraham Silberman
- BridgeRory Chappell
- BridgeAnders Jarryd
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginGraham Silberman
- BridgeRory Chappell
- BridgeAnders Jarryd
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginGraham Silberman
- BridgeRory Chappell
- BridgeAnders Jarryd
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginGraham Silberman
- BridgeRory Chappell
- BridgeAnders Jarryd
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- 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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