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
Albano Olivetti
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 11 meetings101August 25, 2003 — August 14, 2011View Roger Federer × James Blake →02 BridgeOpen career →James Blake
1 meeting10September 17, 2012View James Blake × Albano Olivetti →03 DestinationOpen career →Albano Olivetti
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeStephane Robert
- DestinationAlbano Olivetti
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMichael Llodra
- DestinationAlbano Olivetti
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeNikolay Davydenko
- DestinationAlbano Olivetti
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeBenjamin Becker
- DestinationAlbano Olivetti
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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