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
Jiri Zigmund
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01December 26, 1971View Jiri Zigmund × Max Cocks →02 BridgeOpen career →Max Cocks
1 meeting01December 26, 1971View Max Cocks × Allan Stone →03 BridgeOpen career →Allan Stone
2 meetings11August 29, 1973 — October 4, 1976View Allan Stone × Vijay Amritraj →04 BridgeOpen career →Vijay Amritraj
1 meeting10April 10, 1989View Vijay Amritraj × Gianluca Pozzi →05 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Gianluca Pozzi × Roger Federer →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJiri Zigmund
- BridgeMax Cocks
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeRussell Simpson
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJiri Zigmund
- BridgeMax Cocks
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJiri Zigmund
- BridgeMax Cocks
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeFrancisco Gonzalez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJiri Zigmund
- BridgeMax Cocks
- BridgeAllan Stone
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- 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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