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
Juan Antonio Rodriguez
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 meeting01September 8, 1986View Juan Antonio Rodriguez × Jordi Arrese →02 BridgeOpen career →Jordi Arrese
6 meetings60April 2, 1990 — September 11, 1995View Jordi Arrese × 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.
- OriginJuan Antonio Rodriguez
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJuan Antonio Rodriguez
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJuan Antonio Rodriguez
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJuan Antonio Rodriguez
- BridgeJordi Arrese
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- 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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