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
Maurice Hunter
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 meeting01July 27, 1980View Maurice Hunter × Belus Prajoux →02 BridgeOpen career →Belus Prajoux
1 meeting01August 11, 1986View Belus Prajoux × Alex Antonitsch →03 BridgeOpen career →Alex Antonitsch
2 meetings11August 7, 1989 — April 4, 1994View Alex Antonitsch × Gianluca Pozzi →04 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Gianluca Pozzi × 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.
- OriginMaurice Hunter
- BridgeBelus Prajoux
- BridgeAlex Antonitsch
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMaurice Hunter
- BridgeBelus Prajoux
- BridgeAlex Antonitsch
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMaurice Hunter
- BridgeBelus Prajoux
- BridgeAlex Antonitsch
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMaurice Hunter
- BridgeBelus Prajoux
- BridgeAlex Antonitsch
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- 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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