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 Brown
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01July 10, 1989View Mike Brown × Lawson Duncan →02 BridgeOpen career →Lawson Duncan
1 meeting10September 10, 1990View Lawson Duncan × Cedric Pioline →03 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01September 13, 1999View Cedric Pioline × Roger Federer →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMike Brown
- BridgeLawson Duncan
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMike Brown
- BridgeLawson Duncan
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMike Brown
- BridgeLawson Duncan
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMike Brown
- BridgeLawson Duncan
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- 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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