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
Mike Adams
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 meeting01September 22, 1968View Mike Adams × John Yeomans →02 BridgeOpen career →John Yeomans
1 meeting01September 22, 1968View John Yeomans × Roy Barth →03 BridgeOpen career →Roy Barth
1 meeting01August 29, 1973View Roy Barth × Bjorn Borg →04 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Borg
1 meeting01April 20, 1992View Bjorn Borg × Wayne Ferreira →05 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
3 meetings21January 8, 2001 — October 15, 2001View Wayne Ferreira × 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.
- OriginMike Adams
- BridgeJohn Yeomans
- BridgeRoy Barth
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMike Adams
- BridgeJohn Yeomans
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMike Adams
- BridgeJohn Yeomans
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMike Adams
- BridgeJohn Yeomans
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- 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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