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
Marcos Klensch
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 meeting01May 6, 1983View Marcos Klensch × Michel Borfiga →02 BridgeOpen career →Michel Borfiga
1 meeting10May 6, 1983View Michel Borfiga × Johnny Goudenbour →03 BridgeOpen career →Johnny Goudenbour
1 meeting01April 30, 1993View Johnny Goudenbour × Filip Dewulf →04 BridgeOpen career →Filip Dewulf
1 meeting01February 28, 2000View Filip Dewulf × Roger Federer →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMarcos Klensch
- BridgeBernard Balleret
- BridgeAndrei Chesnokov
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMarcos Klensch
- BridgeBernard Balleret
- BridgeAndrei Chesnokov
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMarcos Klensch
- BridgeBernard Balleret
- BridgeAndrei Chesnokov
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMarcos Klensch
- BridgeBernard Balleret
- BridgeAndrei Chesnokov
- BridgeByron Black
- 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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