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
Omar Laimina
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 meeting01October 3, 1977View Omar Laimina × Mansour Bahrami →02 BridgeOpen career →Mansour Bahrami
1 meeting10September 24, 1990View Mansour Bahrami × Marc Rosset →03 BridgeOpen career →Marc Rosset
4 meetings22February 7, 2000 — October 20, 2003View Marc Rosset × Roger Federer →04 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginOmar Laimina
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginOmar Laimina
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- 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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