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
Mauricio Posso
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 meeting10October 27, 1979View Mauricio Posso × Carlos Claverie →02 BridgeOpen career →Carlos Claverie
1 meeting10March 30, 1990View Carlos Claverie × Juan Pino →03 BridgeOpen career →Juan Pino
1 meeting01September 24, 1993View Juan Pino × Yevgeny Kafelnikov →04 BridgeOpen career →Yevgeny Kafelnikov
6 meetings42February 15, 1999 — February 8, 2002View Yevgeny Kafelnikov × 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.
- OriginMauricio Posso
- BridgeCarlos Claverie
- BridgeJuan Pino
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMauricio Posso
- BridgeCarlos Claverie
- BridgeMario Tabares
- BridgeYevgeny Kafelnikov
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMauricio Posso
- BridgeCarlos Claverie
- BridgeAmos Mansdorf
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMauricio Posso
- BridgeCarlos Claverie
- BridgeAmos Mansdorf
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- 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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