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
Marcio Carlsson
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 5 meetings41January 17, 2000 — August 26, 2002View Roger Federer × Michael Chang →02 BridgeOpen career →Michael Chang
1 meeting10April 20, 1998View Michael Chang × Marcio Carlsson →03 DestinationOpen career →Marcio Carlsson
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
- BridgeAlex Corretja
- DestinationMarcio Carlsson
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAdrian Voinea
- DestinationMarcio Carlsson
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFranco Squillari
- DestinationMarcio Carlsson
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarcelo Rios
- DestinationMarcio Carlsson
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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