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
Harutyun Sofyan
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 meeting10February 24, 2003View Roger Federer × Irakli Labadze →02 BridgeOpen career →Irakli Labadze
1 meeting10July 15, 2005View Irakli Labadze × Gunther Darkey →03 BridgeOpen career →Gunther Darkey
1 meeting10July 12, 2002View Gunther Darkey × Harutyun Sofyan →04 DestinationOpen career →Harutyun Sofyan
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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