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
Patrick Chucri
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 meeting01February 8, 2002View Patrick Chucri × Leander Paes →02 BridgeOpen career →Leander Paes
2 meetings02August 25, 1997 — January 3, 2000View Leander Paes × 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.
- OriginPatrick Chucri
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPatrick Chucri
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPatrick Chucri
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPatrick Chucri
- BridgeLeander Paes
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- 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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