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
Manfred Gastler
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 meeting01May 29, 1968View Manfred Gastler × Jaroslav Drobny →02 BridgeOpen career →Jaroslav Drobny
1 meeting01May 29, 1968View Jaroslav Drobny × Harald Elschenbroich →03 BridgeOpen career →Harald Elschenbroich
1 meeting01December 26, 1975View Harald Elschenbroich × Brad Drewett →04 BridgeOpen career →Brad Drewett
1 meeting10January 15, 1990View Brad Drewett × Cedric Pioline →05 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01September 13, 1999View Cedric Pioline × 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.
- OriginManfred Gastler
- BridgeJaroslav Drobny
- BridgeHarald Elschenbroich
- BridgeBrad Drewett
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginManfred Gastler
- BridgeJaroslav Drobny
- BridgeHans Joachim Ploetz
- BridgePaul Mcnamee
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginManfred Gastler
- BridgeJaroslav Drobny
- BridgeHans Joachim Ploetz
- BridgeVictor Pecci
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginManfred Gastler
- BridgeJaroslav Drobny
- BridgeHans Joachim Ploetz
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- 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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