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
Koko Kunkel
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 meeting01June 7, 1999View Roger Federer × Byron Black →02 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
2 meetings20June 15, 1990 — July 17, 1992View Byron Black × Ilou Lonfo →03 BridgeOpen career →Ilou Lonfo
1 meeting10May 1, 1992View Ilou Lonfo × Koko Kunkel →04 DestinationOpen career →Koko Kunkel
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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