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
Cesar Cruz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01March 15, 1999View Roger Federer × Kenneth Carlsen →02 BridgeOpen career →Kenneth Carlsen
1 meeting10May 3, 2002View Kenneth Carlsen × Andrei Gorban →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Gorban
1 meeting01February 1, 2025View Andrei Gorban × Cesar Cruz →04 DestinationOpen career →Cesar Cruz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- BridgeElmer Moller
- DestinationCesar Cruz
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePablo Carreno Busta
- BridgeElmer Moller
- DestinationCesar Cruz
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- BridgeYanaki Milev
- DestinationCesar Cruz
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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