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
R Gates
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 meeting01December 6, 1971View R Gates × Rod Frawley →02 BridgeOpen career →Rod Frawley
2 meetings02December 20, 1982 — December 28, 1982View Rod Frawley × Pat Cash →03 BridgeOpen career →Pat Cash
2 meetings02August 12, 1996 — June 23, 1997View Pat Cash × Byron Black →04 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting10June 7, 1999View Byron Black × 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.
- OriginR Gates
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginR Gates
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginR Gates
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginR Gates
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeSergi Bruguera
- 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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