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
Jason Sankey
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 meeting01April 7, 2006View Jason Sankey × Febi Widhiyanto →02 BridgeOpen career →Febi Widhiyanto
1 meeting01April 2, 1999View Febi Widhiyanto × Joseph Lizardo →03 BridgeOpen career →Joseph Lizardo
1 meeting01February 9, 1996View Joseph Lizardo × Takao Suzuki →04 BridgeOpen career →Takao Suzuki
2 meetings02January 17, 2005 — October 2, 2006View Takao Suzuki × 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.
- OriginJason Sankey
- BridgeFebi Widhiyanto
- BridgeJoseph Lizardo
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJason Sankey
- BridgeFebi Widhiyanto
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJason Sankey
- BridgeFebi Widhiyanto
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJason Sankey
- BridgeFebi Widhiyanto
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- 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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