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
Mark Turpin
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10September 13, 1999View Roger Federer × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01January 15, 1990View Cedric Pioline × Brad Drewett →03 BridgeOpen career →Brad Drewett
1 meeting10November 12, 1979View Brad Drewett × Mark Turpin →04 DestinationOpen career →Mark Turpin
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- BridgeBrad Drewett
- DestinationMark Turpin
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePete Sampras
- BridgeEliot Teltscher
- DestinationMark Turpin
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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