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
Conny Falk
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 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings11May 11, 1987 — February 6, 1995View Gianluca Pozzi × Emilio Sanchez →03 BridgeOpen career →Emilio Sanchez
1 meeting10April 11, 1988View Emilio Sanchez × Conny Falk →04 DestinationOpen career →Conny Falk
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- DestinationConny Falk
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- DestinationConny Falk
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- DestinationConny Falk
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- DestinationConny Falk
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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