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
Alexander Tavkhelidze
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10October 2, 2006View Roger Federer × Wesley Moodie →02 BridgeOpen career →Wesley Moodie
1 meeting10April 7, 2006View Wesley Moodie × Lado Chikhladze →03 BridgeOpen career →Lado Chikhladze
1 meeting01July 16, 2004View Lado Chikhladze × Omar Hedayet →04 BridgeOpen career →Omar Hedayet
1 meeting10July 10, 2009View Omar Hedayet × Alexander Tavkhelidze →05 DestinationOpen career →Alexander Tavkhelidze
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndreas Seppi
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrederico Gil
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeIlija Bozoljac
- BridgeLado Chikhladze
- BridgeOmar Hedayet
- DestinationAlexander Tavkhelidze
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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