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
Edson Krause
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20February 21, 2000 — January 29, 2001View Roger Federer × Goran Ivanisevic →02 BridgeOpen career →Goran Ivanisevic
1 meeting10October 17, 1988View Goran Ivanisevic × Ivan Kley →03 BridgeOpen career →Ivan Kley
1 meeting10November 21, 1983View Ivan Kley × Carlos Chabalgoity →04 BridgeOpen career →Carlos Chabalgoity
1 meeting10November 21, 1983View Carlos Chabalgoity × Edson Krause →05 DestinationOpen career →Edson Krause
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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