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
Roger Federer
reaches
A Lautenschlager
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10September 13, 1999View Roger Federer × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01May 15, 1989View Cedric Pioline × Jimmy Connors →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
6 meetings60November 28, 1972 — September 1, 1976View Jimmy Connors × Jan Kodes →04 BridgeOpen career →Jan Kodes
1 meeting10July 22, 1968View Jan Kodes × Isao Watanabe →05 BridgeOpen career →Isao Watanabe
1 meeting10July 22, 1968View Isao Watanabe × Henk Nijeboer →06 BridgeOpen career →Henk Nijeboer
1 meeting10July 22, 1968View Henk Nijeboer × A Lautenschlager →07 DestinationOpen career →A Lautenschlager
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJurgen Fassbender
- BridgeIsao Watanabe
- BridgeHenk Nijeboer
- DestinationA Lautenschlager
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeTito Vazquez
- BridgeIsao Watanabe
- BridgeHenk Nijeboer
- DestinationA Lautenschlager
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJaime Pinto Bravo
- BridgeIsao Watanabe
- BridgeHenk Nijeboer
- DestinationA Lautenschlager
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeNicola Spear
- BridgeIsao Watanabe
- BridgeHenk Nijeboer
- DestinationA Lautenschlager
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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