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
Bedri Baykam
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01August 7, 2000View Roger Federer × Francisco Clavet →02 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Clavet
1 meeting10October 28, 1991View Francisco Clavet × Fernando Roese →03 BridgeOpen career →Fernando Roese
1 meeting10November 21, 1983View Fernando Roese × Thomaz Koch →04 BridgeOpen career →Thomaz Koch
1 meeting10July 20, 1975View Thomaz Koch × Yildirak Das →05 BridgeOpen career →Yildirak Das
1 meeting10July 20, 1975View Yildirak Das × Bedri Baykam →06 DestinationOpen career →Bedri Baykam
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeThomaz Koch
- BridgeYildirak Das
- DestinationBedri Baykam
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeThomaz Koch
- BridgeYildirak Das
- DestinationBedri Baykam
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeThomaz Koch
- BridgeYildirak Das
- DestinationBedri Baykam
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMichael Chang
- BridgeFernando Roese
- BridgeThomaz Koch
- BridgeYildirak Das
- DestinationBedri Baykam
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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