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
Martin Stiegwardt
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 8 meetings80June 21, 2004 — May 24, 2015View Roger Federer × Alejandro Falla →02 BridgeOpen career →Alejandro Falla
1 meeting10July 15, 2005View Alejandro Falla × Devin Mullings →03 BridgeOpen career →Devin Mullings
1 meeting01July 12, 2002View Devin Mullings × Martin Stiegwardt →04 DestinationOpen career →Martin Stiegwardt
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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