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
Herve Grenier
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 meeting01October 17, 1994View Herve Grenier × Lionel Roux →02 BridgeOpen career →Lionel Roux
3 meetings03August 24, 1998 — February 1, 1999View Lionel Roux × Gianluca Pozzi →03 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Gianluca Pozzi × 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.
- OriginHerve Grenier
- BridgeLionel Roux
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginHerve Grenier
- BridgeLionel Roux
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginHerve Grenier
- BridgeLionel Roux
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginHerve Grenier
- BridgeLionel Roux
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- 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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