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
Jehad Sheet
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 meeting01May 3, 1991View Jehad Sheet × Umesha Wallooppillai →02 BridgeOpen career →Umesha Wallooppillai
2 meetings20February 5, 1988 — February 3, 1989View Umesha Wallooppillai × Selvam Veerasingam →03 BridgeOpen career →Selvam Veerasingam
1 meeting01April 6, 2001View Selvam Veerasingam × Yen Hsun Lu →04 BridgeOpen career →Yen Hsun Lu
3 meetings03June 22, 2009 — January 19, 2015View Yen Hsun Lu × 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.
- OriginJehad Sheet
- BridgeUmesha Wallooppillai
- BridgeMichael Walker
- BridgeMartin Damm Sr
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJehad Sheet
- BridgeArjun Fernando
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJehad Sheet
- BridgeArjun Fernando
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJehad Sheet
- BridgeArjun Fernando
- BridgeMichael Walker
- BridgeMartin Damm Sr
- 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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