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
Martyn Pawelski
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 meeting10January 31, 2025View Martyn Pawelski × Zura Tkemaladze →02 BridgeOpen career →Zura Tkemaladze
1 meeting01March 6, 2020View Zura Tkemaladze × Kristjan Tamm →03 BridgeOpen career →Kristjan Tamm
1 meeting01September 16, 2022View Kristjan Tamm × Aljaz Bedene →04 BridgeOpen career →Aljaz Bedene
2 meetings02January 15, 2018 — June 18, 2018View Aljaz Bedene × 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.
- OriginMartyn Pawelski
- BridgeZura Tkemaladze
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeHyeon Chung
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMartyn Pawelski
- BridgeZura Tkemaladze
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMartyn Pawelski
- BridgeZura Tkemaladze
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeSumit Nagal
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMartyn Pawelski
- BridgeZura Tkemaladze
- BridgeRicardas Berankis
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- 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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