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
Haruhiko Matsunaga
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 meeting10October 11, 1993View Gianluca Pozzi × Mats Wilander →03 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
1 meeting10March 7, 1983View Mats Wilander × Larry Stefanki →04 BridgeOpen career →Larry Stefanki
1 meeting10October 19, 1981View Larry Stefanki × Taisen Kanai →05 BridgeOpen career →Taisen Kanai
1 meeting10October 19, 1981View Taisen Kanai × Haruhiko Matsunaga →06 DestinationOpen career →Haruhiko Matsunaga
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
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgePhil Dent
- BridgeTaisen Kanai
- DestinationHaruhiko Matsunaga
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeJohn Bartlett
- BridgeTaisen Kanai
- DestinationHaruhiko Matsunaga
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeLarry Stefanki
- BridgeTaisen Kanai
- DestinationHaruhiko Matsunaga
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgePhil Dent
- BridgeTaisen Kanai
- DestinationHaruhiko Matsunaga
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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