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
Julien Cagnina
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 17 meetings170November 20, 2000 — August 28, 2017View Roger Federer × Mikhail Youzhny →02 BridgeOpen career →Mikhail Youzhny
1 meeting10April 23, 2018View Mikhail Youzhny × Zsombor Piros →03 BridgeOpen career →Zsombor Piros
1 meeting10February 2, 2018View Zsombor Piros × Julien Cagnina →04 DestinationOpen career →Julien Cagnina
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePhilipp Kohlschreiber
- BridgeZsombor Piros
- DestinationJulien Cagnina
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeLukas Rosol
- BridgeZsombor Piros
- DestinationJulien Cagnina
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarin Cilic
- BridgeZsombor Piros
- DestinationJulien Cagnina
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAlex de Minaur
- BridgeZsombor Piros
- DestinationJulien Cagnina
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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