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
Jean Max Mangones
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 9 meetings54June 21, 1999 — June 7, 2004View Roger Federer × Jiri Novak →02 BridgeOpen career →Jiri Novak
1 meeting10September 24, 2004View Jiri Novak × Paulo Carvallo →03 BridgeOpen career →Paulo Carvallo
1 meeting10July 16, 1999View Paulo Carvallo × Jean Max Mangones →04 DestinationOpen career →Jean Max Mangones
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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