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
Karim Afifi
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 3 meetings12January 8, 2001 — October 15, 2001View Roger Federer × Wayne Ferreira →02 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
1 meeting10September 24, 1993View Wayne Ferreira × Abou Berthe →03 BridgeOpen career →Abou Berthe
1 meeting10April 30, 1993View Abou Berthe × Karim Afifi →04 DestinationOpen career →Karim Afifi
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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