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
Emad Abou Hamdeh
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 4 meetings22February 7, 2000 — October 20, 2003View Roger Federer × Marc Rosset →02 BridgeOpen career →Marc Rosset
1 meeting01September 24, 1990View Marc Rosset × Mansour Bahrami →03 BridgeOpen career →Mansour Bahrami
1 meeting10February 5, 1993View Mansour Bahrami × Emad Abou Hamdeh →04 DestinationOpen career →Emad Abou Hamdeh
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRichard Krajicek
- BridgeAdam Malik
- DestinationEmad Abou Hamdeh
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeAdam Malik
- DestinationEmad Abou Hamdeh
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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