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
Abdullah Al Khalil
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 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
3 meetings12October 7, 1991 — September 26, 1994View Gianluca Pozzi × Andrei Olhovskiy →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Olhovskiy
1 meeting10September 30, 1996View Andrei Olhovskiy × Tanakorn Srichaphan →04 BridgeOpen career →Tanakorn Srichaphan
1 meeting10March 30, 1990View Tanakorn Srichaphan × Khaled Al Foudari →05 BridgeOpen career →Khaled Al Foudari
1 meeting10February 3, 1989View Khaled Al Foudari × Abdullah Al Khalil →06 DestinationOpen career →Abdullah Al Khalil
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.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeWorapol Thongkamcho
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- DestinationAbdullah Al Khalil
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- DestinationAbdullah Al Khalil
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- DestinationAbdullah Al Khalil
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeShuzo Matsuoka
- BridgeWorapol Thongkamcho
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- DestinationAbdullah Al Khalil
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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