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
Colin Diederichs
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 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10January 11, 1988View Gianluca Pozzi × Craig A Miller →03 BridgeOpen career →Craig A Miller
1 meeting10October 5, 1981View Craig A Miller × Jeff Twist →04 BridgeOpen career →Jeff Twist
1 meeting10March 29, 1971View Jeff Twist × Colin Diederichs →05 DestinationOpen career →Colin Diederichs
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
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeTerry Ryan
- DestinationColin Diederichs
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeTerry Ryan
- DestinationColin Diederichs
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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