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
Bill Mcdonnell
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 meeting10September 13, 1999View Roger Federer × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01May 15, 1989View Cedric Pioline × Jimmy Connors →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
6 meetings42August 29, 1973 — November 5, 1979View Jimmy Connors × John Newcombe →04 BridgeOpen career →John Newcombe
1 meeting10August 4, 1969View John Newcombe × Tony Pospisil →05 BridgeOpen career →Tony Pospisil
1 meeting10August 4, 1969View Tony Pospisil × Bill Mcdonnell →06 DestinationOpen career →Bill Mcdonnell
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
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJohn Newcombe
- BridgeTony Pospisil
- DestinationBill Mcdonnell
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJohn Newcombe
- BridgeTony Pospisil
- DestinationBill Mcdonnell
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJohn Newcombe
- BridgeTony Pospisil
- DestinationBill Mcdonnell
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJohn Newcombe
- BridgeTony Pospisil
- DestinationBill Mcdonnell
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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