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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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Roger Federer
reaches
Bob Speicher

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

4,656 players examined
  1. 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000
    View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →
  2. 1 meeting10October 11, 1993
    View Gianluca Pozzi × Mats Wilander →
  3. 1 meeting10November 2, 1981
    View Mats Wilander × Stan Smith →
  4. 1 meeting10July 15, 1968
    View Stan Smith × Bob Brien →
  5. 1 meeting10April 15, 1968
    View Bob Brien × Frank Conner →
  6. 1 meeting10June 22, 1968
    View Frank Conner × Bob Speicher →

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.

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.

Reverse the route →