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
Karlis Ozolins
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 1 meeting10June 14, 2021View Roger Federer × Ilya Ivashka →02 BridgeOpen career →Ilya Ivashka
1 meeting10March 4, 2016View Ilya Ivashka × Mohamed Safwat →03 BridgeOpen career →Mohamed Safwat
1 meeting10March 6, 2020View Mohamed Safwat × Karlis Ozolins →04 DestinationOpen career →Karlis Ozolins
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
- BridgeBenjamin Becker
- BridgeRoberto Cid
- DestinationKarlis Ozolins
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeMohamed Safwat
- DestinationKarlis Ozolins
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePhilipp Kohlschreiber
- BridgeMohamed Safwat
- DestinationKarlis Ozolins
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMalek Jaziri
- BridgeNick Hardt
- DestinationKarlis Ozolins
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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