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
Anthony Jackie Tang
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 2 meetings20January 17, 2005 — October 2, 2006View Roger Federer × Takao Suzuki →02 BridgeOpen career →Takao Suzuki
1 meeting10April 4, 2003View Takao Suzuki × Aqeel Khan →03 BridgeOpen career →Aqeel Khan
1 meeting10February 3, 2017View Aqeel Khan × Shahin Khaledan →04 BridgeOpen career →Shahin Khaledan
1 meeting01February 3, 2018View Shahin Khaledan × Anthony Jackie Tang →05 DestinationOpen career →Anthony Jackie Tang
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
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- DestinationAnthony Jackie Tang
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- DestinationAnthony Jackie Tang
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgeChristopher Rungkat
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- DestinationAnthony Jackie Tang
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeShahin Khaledan
- DestinationAnthony Jackie Tang
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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