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
Jorge Cordova
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 meetings20September 28, 1998 — February 15, 1999View Roger Federer × Guillaume Raoux →02 BridgeOpen career →Guillaume Raoux
1 meeting01June 25, 1990View Guillaume Raoux × David Pate →03 BridgeOpen career →David Pate
1 meeting10August 12, 1985View David Pate × Ernie Fernandez →04 BridgeOpen career →Ernie Fernandez
1 meeting10April 4, 1997View Ernie Fernandez × Jorge Cordova →05 DestinationOpen career →Jorge Cordova
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
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- BridgeDavid Pate
- BridgeErnie Fernandez
- DestinationJorge Cordova
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeChip Hooper
- BridgeErnie Fernandez
- DestinationJorge Cordova
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeDavid Pate
- BridgeErnie Fernandez
- DestinationJorge Cordova
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeDavid Pate
- BridgeErnie Fernandez
- DestinationJorge Cordova
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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