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
Benjamin Mitchell
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 10 meetings82August 27, 2007 — September 20, 2019View Roger Federer × John Isner →02 BridgeOpen career →John Isner
1 meeting10January 16, 2012View John Isner × Benjamin Mitchell →03 DestinationOpen career →Benjamin Mitchell
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarcos Baghdatis
- DestinationBenjamin Mitchell
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTobias Kamke
- DestinationBenjamin Mitchell
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJames Duckworth
- DestinationBenjamin Mitchell
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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