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
Hazuan Hizan
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 meeting01April 5, 2002View Hazuan Hizan × John Hui →02 BridgeOpen career →John Hui
1 meeting01April 8, 1996View John Hui × Patrick Rafter →03 BridgeOpen career →Patrick Rafter
3 meetings30May 24, 1999 — June 11, 2001View Patrick Rafter × Roger Federer →04 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginHazuan Hizan
- BridgeJohn Hui
- BridgeMarat Safin
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginHazuan Hizan
- BridgeAsim Shafik
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginHazuan Hizan
- BridgeRamin Raziyani
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- 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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