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
Bruno Abdel Nour
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10February 27, 2006View Roger Federer × Mohammad Ghareeb →02 BridgeOpen career →Mohammad Ghareeb
1 meeting10April 5, 2013View Mohammad Ghareeb × Issam Al Tawil →03 BridgeOpen career →Issam Al Tawil
1 meeting01July 8, 2011View Issam Al Tawil × Nicholas Sayer →04 BridgeOpen career →Nicholas Sayer
1 meeting01July 8, 2011View Nicholas Sayer × Bruno Abdel Nour →05 DestinationOpen career →Bruno Abdel Nour
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgeChristopher Rungkat
- BridgeNicholas Sayer
- DestinationBruno Abdel Nour
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeYuichi Sugita
- BridgeChristopher Rungkat
- BridgeNicholas Sayer
- DestinationBruno Abdel Nour
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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