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
Karol Filar
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 meeting10February 7, 2026View Karol Filar × Faris Zakaryia →02 BridgeOpen career →Faris Zakaryia
1 meeting01September 13, 2024View Faris Zakaryia × Mate Valkusz →03 BridgeOpen career →Mate Valkusz
1 meeting01September 14, 2018View Mate Valkusz × Lukas Rosol →04 BridgeOpen career →Lukas Rosol
2 meetings02February 24, 2014 — April 13, 2014View Lukas Rosol × Roger Federer →05 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginKarol Filar
- BridgeFaris Zakaryia
- BridgeMate Valkusz
- BridgeJan-Lennard Struff
- 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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