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
Damion Johnson
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 meeting10August 10, 2009View Roger Federer × Frederic Niemeyer →02 BridgeOpen career →Frederic Niemeyer
1 meeting10February 8, 2008View Frederic Niemeyer × Santiago Gonzalez →03 BridgeOpen career →Santiago Gonzalez
1 meeting10March 6, 2009View Santiago Gonzalez × Damion Johnson →04 DestinationOpen career →Damion Johnson
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
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- BridgeMarcel Felder
- DestinationDamion Johnson
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRuben Ramirez Hidalgo
- BridgeSantiago Gonzalez
- DestinationDamion Johnson
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarcos Daniel
- BridgeMarcel Felder
- DestinationDamion Johnson
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJeff Morrison
- BridgeSantiago Gonzalez
- DestinationDamion Johnson
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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