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
Liu Shuhua
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 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
3 meetings30August 5, 1991 — August 10, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × Jakob Hlasek →03 BridgeOpen career →Jakob Hlasek
1 meeting10June 14, 1985View Jakob Hlasek × Haroon Ismail →04 BridgeOpen career →Haroon Ismail
1 meeting10October 13, 1980View Haroon Ismail × Liu Shuhua →05 DestinationOpen career →Liu Shuhua
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJoao Cunha Silva
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- DestinationLiu Shuhua
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- DestinationLiu Shuhua
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- DestinationLiu Shuhua
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeAndres Gomez
- BridgeHaroon Ismail
- DestinationLiu Shuhua
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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