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
Cheng Yu Yu
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 26 meetings233February 14, 2005 — May 27, 2019View Roger Federer × Stan Wawrinka →02 BridgeOpen career →Stan Wawrinka
1 meeting10February 23, 2026View Stan Wawrinka × Benjamin Hassan →03 BridgeOpen career →Benjamin Hassan
1 meeting10February 3, 2018View Benjamin Hassan × Cheng Yu Yu →04 DestinationOpen career →Cheng Yu Yu
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeYoshihito Nishioka
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- DestinationCheng Yu Yu
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeBorna Coric
- BridgeBenjamin Hassan
- DestinationCheng Yu Yu
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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