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
Ivan Ivanov
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 meeting10June 19, 2017View Roger Federer × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
4 meetings31October 4, 2021 — February 19, 2024View Karen Khachanov × Emil Ruusuvuori →03 BridgeOpen career →Emil Ruusuvuori
1 meeting10September 13, 2025View Emil Ruusuvuori × Ivan Ivanov →04 DestinationOpen career →Ivan Ivanov
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeYannick Hanfmann
- DestinationIvan Ivanov
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeEmil Ruusuvuori
- DestinationIvan Ivanov
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeIlya Ivashka
- BridgeEmil Ruusuvuori
- DestinationIvan Ivanov
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeEmil Ruusuvuori
- DestinationIvan Ivanov
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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