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 Spiegel
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 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10April 20, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × John Fitzgerald →03 BridgeOpen career →John Fitzgerald
1 meeting10September 27, 1982View John Fitzgerald × Jim Osborne →04 BridgeOpen career →Jim Osborne
1 meeting10September 22, 1968View Jim Osborne × John Spiegel →05 DestinationOpen career →John Spiegel
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeJohn McEnroe
- BridgeTom Leonard
- DestinationJohn Spiegel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeJim Osborne
- DestinationJohn Spiegel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJohn Fitzgerald
- BridgeJim Osborne
- DestinationJohn Spiegel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeRamesh Krishnan
- BridgeTom Leonard
- DestinationJohn Spiegel
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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