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
Ivo Lagzdins
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 2 meetings20February 21, 2000 — January 29, 2001View Roger Federer × Goran Ivanisevic →02 BridgeOpen career →Goran Ivanisevic
1 meeting10October 6, 2000View Goran Ivanisevic × Claude Ngoran →03 BridgeOpen career →Claude Ngoran
1 meeting10May 2, 1997View Claude Ngoran × Ivo Lagzdins →04 DestinationOpen career →Ivo Lagzdins
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
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeClaude Ngoran
- DestinationIvo Lagzdins
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeHicham Arazi
- BridgeMichal Gawlowski
- DestinationIvo Lagzdins
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeYevgeny Kafelnikov
- BridgeLovro Zovko
- DestinationIvo Lagzdins
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarc Gicquel
- BridgeLovro Zovko
- DestinationIvo Lagzdins
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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