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
Felix Kaplan
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 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10June 8, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × Massimo Cierro →03 BridgeOpen career →Massimo Cierro
1 meeting01July 8, 1985View Massimo Cierro × Heinz Gunthardt →04 BridgeOpen career →Heinz Gunthardt
1 meeting01October 10, 1975View Heinz Gunthardt × Taghi Akbari →05 BridgeOpen career →Taghi Akbari
1 meeting10April 5, 1974View Taghi Akbari × Felix Kaplan →06 DestinationOpen career →Felix Kaplan
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeRicardo Cano
- BridgeTaghi Akbari
- DestinationFelix Kaplan
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeRoss Case
- BridgeHussain Akbari
- DestinationFelix Kaplan
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeCorrado Barazzutti
- BridgeTaghi Akbari
- DestinationFelix Kaplan
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgePhil Dent
- BridgeTaghi Akbari
- DestinationFelix Kaplan
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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