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
Les Buck
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 meeting01June 22, 1968View Les Buck × John Pickens →02 BridgeOpen career →John Pickens
1 meeting01April 15, 1968View John Pickens × Zeljko Franulovic →03 BridgeOpen career →Zeljko Franulovic
2 meetings11May 12, 1980 — July 7, 1980View Zeljko Franulovic × Paul Mcnamee →04 BridgeOpen career →Paul Mcnamee
1 meeting01September 1, 1987View Paul Mcnamee × Michael Chang →05 BridgeOpen career →Michael Chang
5 meetings14January 17, 2000 — August 26, 2002View Michael Chang × 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.
- OriginLes Buck
- BridgeJohn Pickens
- BridgeZeljko Franulovic
- BridgeVictor Pecci
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginLes Buck
- BridgeJohn Pickens
- BridgeZeljko Franulovic
- BridgeFrancisco Gonzalez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginLes Buck
- BridgeJohn Pickens
- BridgeZeljko Franulovic
- BridgeTomas Smid
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginLes Buck
- BridgeJohn Pickens
- BridgeZeljko Franulovic
- BridgeAndreas Maurer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- 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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