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
Lovro Zovko
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 6 meetings24February 15, 1999 — February 8, 2002View Roger Federer × Yevgeny Kafelnikov →02 BridgeOpen career →Yevgeny Kafelnikov
1 meeting10September 11, 2000View Yevgeny Kafelnikov × Lovro Zovko →03 DestinationOpen career →Lovro Zovko
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarc Gicquel
- DestinationLovro Zovko
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDominik Hrbaty
- DestinationLovro Zovko
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeIvan Ljubicic
- DestinationLovro Zovko
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- DestinationLovro Zovko
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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