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
Kerneels Kasch
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 1 meeting10September 13, 1999View Roger Federer × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01May 15, 1989View Cedric Pioline × Jimmy Connors →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
8 meetings62September 19, 1970 — March 9, 1973View Jimmy Connors × Clark Graebner →04 BridgeOpen career →Clark Graebner
1 meeting10January 8, 1968View Clark Graebner × Kerneels Kasch →05 DestinationOpen career →Kerneels Kasch
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
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeClark Graebner
- DestinationKerneels Kasch
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeClark Graebner
- DestinationKerneels Kasch
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJohn Austin
- BridgeClark Graebner
- DestinationKerneels Kasch
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeClark Graebner
- DestinationKerneels Kasch
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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