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
Reed Cordish
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 meeting01July 14, 1997View Reed Cordish × Marcus Hilpert →02 BridgeOpen career →Marcus Hilpert
1 meeting01July 14, 1997View Marcus Hilpert × Rainer Schuettler →03 BridgeOpen career →Rainer Schuettler
4 meetings13September 27, 1999 — February 25, 2002View Rainer Schuettler × Roger Federer →04 DestinationOpen career →Roger 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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