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
Kirill Ivanov Smolensky
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01February 9, 1998View Kirill Ivanov Smolensky × Hendrik Dreekmann →02 BridgeOpen career →Hendrik Dreekmann
1 meeting01June 10, 2002View Hendrik Dreekmann × Roger Federer →03 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginKirill Ivanov Smolensky
- BridgeLars Burgsmuller
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginKirill Ivanov Smolensky
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- 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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