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
Rauno Suominen
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01January 22, 1968View Rauno Suominen × Vyacheslav Egorov →02 BridgeOpen career →Vyacheslav Egorov
1 meeting01January 22, 1968View Vyacheslav Egorov × Ismail El Shafei →03 BridgeOpen career →Ismail El Shafei
1 meeting01October 11, 1976View Ismail El Shafei × Russell Simpson →04 BridgeOpen career →Russell Simpson
1 meeting01April 20, 1987View Russell Simpson × Andre Agassi →05 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
11 meetings38October 5, 1998 — August 29, 2005View Andre Agassi × Roger Federer →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRauno Suominen
- BridgeVyacheslav Egorov
- BridgeIsmail El Shafei
- BridgeMansour Bahrami
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginRauno Suominen
- BridgeVyacheslav Egorov
- BridgeIsmail El Shafei
- BridgeJohn Austin
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginRauno Suominen
- BridgeVyacheslav Egorov
- BridgeIsmail El Shafei
- BridgeWolfgang Popp
- BridgePete Sampras
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginRauno Suominen
- BridgeVyacheslav Egorov
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeJimmy Brown
- 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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