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
C Whittle
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
2 meetings20June 25, 1973 — August 25, 1974View Jimmy Connors × Mark Farrell →04 BridgeOpen career →Mark Farrell
1 meeting10June 3, 1974View Mark Farrell × Ruben Porges →05— BridgeOpen career →Ruben Porges
1 meeting10June 3, 1974View Ruben Porges × C Whittle →06— DestinationOpen career →C Whittle
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
- BridgeMark Farrell
- —BridgeRuben Porges
- —DestinationC Whittle
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeMark Farrell
- —BridgeRuben Porges
- —DestinationC Whittle
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeMark Farrell
- —BridgeRuben Porges
- —DestinationC Whittle
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeMark Farrell
- —BridgeRuben Porges
- —DestinationC Whittle
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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