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
Dishan Herath
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 meeting10October 4, 1999View Roger Federer × Martin Damm Sr →02 BridgeOpen career →Martin Damm Sr
1 meeting10April 13, 1992View Martin Damm Sr × Michael Walker →03 BridgeOpen career →Michael Walker
1 meeting10March 27, 1992View Michael Walker × Dishan Herath →04 DestinationOpen career →Dishan Herath
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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