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
Jordi Samper Montana
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 9 meetings72July 21, 2008 — October 22, 2018View Roger Federer × Gilles Simon →02 BridgeOpen career →Gilles Simon
1 meeting10May 21, 2018View Gilles Simon × Jordi Samper Montana →03 DestinationOpen career →Jordi Samper Montana
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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