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
Lyuben Petrov
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
1 meeting10February 10, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × Jimmy Arias →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Arias
1 meeting10August 31, 1982View Jimmy Arias × Leo Palin →04 BridgeOpen career →Leo Palin
2 meetings20June 12, 1981 — June 10, 1983View Leo Palin × Lyuben Petrov →05 DestinationOpen career →Lyuben Petrov
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
- BridgeRichard Matuszewski
- BridgeOlli Rahnasto
- DestinationLyuben Petrov
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeSean Sorensen
- DestinationLyuben Petrov
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgeBernard Boileau
- DestinationLyuben Petrov
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgePeter Lundgren
- BridgeOlli Rahnasto
- DestinationLyuben Petrov
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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