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
Marcus Hilpert
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 4 meetings31September 27, 1999 — February 25, 2002View Roger Federer × Rainer Schuettler →02 BridgeOpen career →Rainer Schuettler
1 meeting10July 14, 1997View Rainer Schuettler × Marcus Hilpert →03 DestinationOpen career →Marcus Hilpert
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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