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
Collet
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 2 meetings11September 28, 1998 — June 19, 2000View Roger Federer × Richard Fromberg →02 BridgeOpen career →Richard Fromberg
1 meeting10October 4, 1988View Richard Fromberg × John Frawley →03 BridgeOpen career →John Frawley
1 meeting10July 18, 1983View John Frawley × Sashi Menon →04 BridgeOpen career →Sashi Menon
1 meeting10August 2, 1970View Sashi Menon × Boris Breskvar →05 BridgeOpen career →Boris Breskvar
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Boris Breskvar × Collet →06 DestinationOpen career →Collet
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
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeJonathan Canter
- BridgeSashi Menon
- BridgeBoris Breskvar
- DestinationCollet
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeJohn Frawley
- BridgeSashi Menon
- BridgeBoris Breskvar
- DestinationCollet
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeJonathan Canter
- BridgeSashi Menon
- BridgeBoris Breskvar
- DestinationCollet
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeHans Joachim Ploetz
- BridgeBoris Breskvar
- DestinationCollet
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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