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
Phil Meyer
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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 Phil Meyer × Jeff Borowiak →02 BridgeOpen career →Jeff Borowiak
1 meeting10November 29, 1983View Jeff Borowiak × Stefan Edberg →03 BridgeOpen career →Stefan Edberg
1 meeting10January 4, 1993View Stefan Edberg × Gianluca Pozzi →04 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Gianluca Pozzi × Roger Federer →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPhil Meyer
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPhil Meyer
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPhil Meyer
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPhil Meyer
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- 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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