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
Dieter Ecklebe
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 1 meeting10September 13, 1999View Roger Federer × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01May 15, 1989View Cedric Pioline × Jimmy Connors →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings20July 31, 1972 — June 17, 1973View Jimmy Connors × Barry Phillips Moore →04 BridgeOpen career →Barry Phillips Moore
1 meeting10July 8, 1968View Barry Phillips Moore × Petr Strobl →05 BridgeOpen career →Petr Strobl
1 meeting10July 31, 1968View Petr Strobl × Dieter Ecklebe →06 DestinationOpen career →Dieter Ecklebe
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
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeIon Tiriac
- BridgePetr Strobl
- DestinationDieter Ecklebe
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeIngo Buding
- BridgePetr Strobl
- DestinationDieter Ecklebe
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeBarry Phillips Moore
- BridgePetr Strobl
- DestinationDieter Ecklebe
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeIon Tiriac
- BridgePetr Strobl
- DestinationDieter Ecklebe
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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