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
Irakli Kunchulia
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 meeting01May 1, 1998View Irakli Kunchulia × Nuno Marques →02 BridgeOpen career →Nuno Marques
2 meetings11April 3, 1995 — June 19, 1995View Nuno Marques × Francisco Clavet →03 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Clavet
1 meeting10August 7, 2000View Francisco Clavet × 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.
- OriginIrakli Kunchulia
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginIrakli Kunchulia
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginIrakli Kunchulia
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginIrakli Kunchulia
- BridgeNuno Marques
- BridgeTodd Martin
- 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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