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
Rocky Royer
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 meeting01May 6, 1984View Rocky Royer × Tim Wilkison →02 BridgeOpen career →Tim Wilkison
1 meeting01February 13, 1989View Tim Wilkison × Pete Sampras →03 BridgeOpen career →Pete Sampras
1 meeting01June 25, 2001View Pete Sampras × 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.
- OriginRocky Royer
- BridgeTim Wilkison
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginRocky Royer
- BridgeJuan Aguilera
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginRocky Royer
- BridgeJuan Aguilera
- BridgeSergi Bruguera
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginRocky Royer
- BridgeJuan Aguilera
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- 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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