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
Jack Cheng
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 meetings20January 13, 2014 — January 4, 2015View Roger Federer × James Duckworth →02 BridgeOpen career →James Duckworth
1 meeting01February 7, 2026View James Duckworth × Andres Andrade →03 BridgeOpen career →Andres Andrade
1 meeting10September 14, 2024View Andres Andrade × Jack Cheng →04 DestinationOpen career →Jack Cheng
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- BridgeAndres Andrade
- DestinationJack Cheng
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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