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
Anis Ghorbel
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 1 meeting10June 19, 2017View Roger Federer × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting10October 15, 2018View Karen Khachanov × Mirza Basic →03 BridgeOpen career →Mirza Basic
1 meeting10March 4, 2016View Mirza Basic × Anis Ghorbel →04 DestinationOpen career →Anis Ghorbel
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationAnis Ghorbel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMichael Russell
- BridgeMirza Basic
- DestinationAnis Ghorbel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationAnis Ghorbel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKristian Pless
- BridgeJanez Semrajc
- DestinationAnis Ghorbel
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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