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
Kento Takeuchi
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 8 meetings71May 15, 2000 — March 8, 2004View Roger Federer × Andrei Pavel →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Pavel
1 meeting10September 21, 2007View Andrei Pavel × Go Soeda →03 BridgeOpen career →Go Soeda
1 meeting10September 22, 2014View Go Soeda × Kento Takeuchi →04 DestinationOpen career →Kento Takeuchi
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
- BridgeMatteo Berrettini
- BridgeGo Soeda
- DestinationKento Takeuchi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeGo Soeda
- DestinationKento Takeuchi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRadek Stepanek
- BridgeGo Soeda
- DestinationKento Takeuchi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeGo Soeda
- DestinationKento Takeuchi
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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