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
James Flanagan
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 3 meetings12January 8, 2001 — October 15, 2001View Roger Federer × Wayne Ferreira →02 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
1 meeting10April 20, 1992View Wayne Ferreira × Bjorn Borg →03 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Borg
1 meeting10March 17, 1978View Bjorn Borg × Michael Hickey →04 BridgeOpen career →Michael Hickey
1 meeting10July 10, 1972View Michael Hickey × James Flanagan →05 DestinationOpen career →James Flanagan
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeMichael Hickey
- DestinationJames Flanagan
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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