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
Abdel Monem Bornaz
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 4 meetings31July 5, 1999 — June 9, 2003View Roger Federer × Younes El Aynaoui →02 BridgeOpen career →Younes El Aynaoui
1 meeting10July 20, 1990View Younes El Aynaoui × Orlando Lourenco →03 BridgeOpen career →Orlando Lourenco
1 meeting10March 7, 1986View Orlando Lourenco × Abdel Monem Bornaz →04 DestinationOpen career →Abdel Monem Bornaz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKarim Alami
- BridgeOrlando Lourenco
- DestinationAbdel Monem Bornaz
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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