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
John Paul Fruttero
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 4 meetings40October 23, 2006 — April 11, 2016View Roger Federer × Guillermo Garcia Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Guillermo Garcia Lopez
1 meeting10September 26, 2005View Guillermo Garcia Lopez × John Paul Fruttero →03 DestinationOpen career →John Paul Fruttero
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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