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
Jay Lapidus
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 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10February 10, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × Jimmy Arias →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Arias
3 meetings21August 10, 1981 — May 4, 1987View Jimmy Arias × Jay Lapidus →04 DestinationOpen career →Jay Lapidus
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeMats Wilander
- DestinationJay Lapidus
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeRichard Matuszewski
- DestinationJay Lapidus
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeGary Muller
- DestinationJay Lapidus
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeSimon Youl
- DestinationJay Lapidus
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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