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
Dick Bosse
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
4 meetings40October 21, 1991 — October 24, 1994View Francisco Clavet × Gabriel Markus →03 BridgeOpen career →Gabriel Markus
1 meeting10August 31, 1992View Gabriel Markus × Dick Bosse →04 DestinationOpen career →Dick Bosse
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
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeGabriel Markus
- DestinationDick Bosse
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeGlenn Layendecker
- DestinationDick Bosse
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- BridgeGabriel Markus
- DestinationDick Bosse
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- BridgeGabriel Markus
- DestinationDick Bosse
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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