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
Mounged Bouhassoun
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 meeting01April 8, 1988View Mounged Bouhassoun × Wai Yaw Liu →02 BridgeOpen career →Wai Yaw Liu
2 meetings02May 6, 1988 — June 14, 1991View Wai Yaw Liu × Colin Grant →03 BridgeOpen career →Colin Grant
1 meeting01March 7, 1986View Colin Grant × Adam Malik →04 BridgeOpen career →Adam Malik
1 meeting01October 2, 1995View Adam Malik × Richard Krajicek →05 BridgeOpen career →Richard Krajicek
2 meetings02October 9, 2000 — June 17, 2002View Richard Krajicek × 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.
- OriginMounged Bouhassoun
- BridgeWai Yaw Liu
- BridgeColin Grant
- BridgeAdam Malik
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMounged Bouhassoun
- BridgeWai Yaw Liu
- BridgeColin Grant
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMounged Bouhassoun
- BridgeWai Yaw Liu
- BridgeColin Grant
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginMounged Bouhassoun
- BridgeWai Yaw Liu
- BridgeColin Grant
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- 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.
Reverse the route →