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
Bader Mohammed Almuqail
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 5 meetings41January 17, 2000 — August 26, 2002View Roger Federer × Michael Chang →02 BridgeOpen career →Michael Chang
1 meeting10April 7, 1997View Michael Chang × Melvin Tong →03 BridgeOpen career →Melvin Tong
1 meeting10April 4, 1997View Melvin Tong × Bader Mohammed Almuqail →04 DestinationOpen career →Bader Mohammed Almuqail
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
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeMelvin Tong
- DestinationBader Mohammed Almuqail
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- BridgeMelvin Tong
- DestinationBader Mohammed Almuqail
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgeAli Hamadeh
- DestinationBader Mohammed Almuqail
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgeRamin Raziyani
- DestinationBader Mohammed Almuqail
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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