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
David Salvador Estepa
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 meeting01August 7, 2000View Roger Federer × Francisco Clavet →02 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Clavet
1 meeting01September 23, 1991View Francisco Clavet × German Lopez →03 BridgeOpen career →German Lopez
1 meeting10April 14, 1997View German Lopez × David Salvador Estepa →04 DestinationOpen career →David Salvador Estepa
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
- BridgeSergi Bruguera
- BridgeGerman Lopez
- DestinationDavid Salvador Estepa
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePete Sampras
- BridgeGerman Lopez
- DestinationDavid Salvador Estepa
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeGerman Lopez
- DestinationDavid Salvador Estepa
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKarim Alami
- BridgeGerman Lopez
- DestinationDavid Salvador Estepa
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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