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
Piero Demichelli
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 6, 2004View Piero Demichelli × Adrian Garcia →02 BridgeOpen career →Adrian Garcia
1 meeting10July 12, 2004View Adrian Garcia × 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 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPiero Demichelli
- BridgeAdrian Garcia
- BridgeFelix Mantilla
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPiero Demichelli
- BridgeAdrian Garcia
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPiero Demichelli
- BridgeAdrian Garcia
- BridgeMarcelo Rios
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginPiero Demichelli
- BridgeAdrian Garcia
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- 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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