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
John Erik Rustad
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 9, 1986View John Erik Rustad × Tony Mmoh →02 BridgeOpen career →Tony Mmoh
1 meeting01April 3, 1987View Tony Mmoh × Byron Black →03 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting10June 7, 1999View Byron Black × 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.
- OriginJohn Erik Rustad
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJohn Erik Rustad
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJohn Erik Rustad
- BridgeAbou Berthe
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJohn Erik Rustad
- BridgeYahiya Doumbia
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- 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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