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
Matt Klinger
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10February 9, 2001View Roger Federer × Todd Martin →02 BridgeOpen career →Todd Martin
1 meeting10February 9, 1996View Todd Martin × Alejandro Hernandez →03 BridgeOpen career →Alejandro Hernandez
1 meeting10April 9, 2004View Alejandro Hernandez × Bjorn Munroe →04 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Munroe
1 meeting01February 7, 2003View Bjorn Munroe × William Lock →05 BridgeOpen career →William Lock
1 meeting01April 4, 2003View William Lock × Matt Klinger →06 DestinationOpen career →Matt Klinger
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMichael Chang
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- BridgeWilliam Lock
- DestinationMatt Klinger
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFilip Dewulf
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- BridgeWilliam Lock
- DestinationMatt Klinger
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKarim Alami
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- BridgeWilliam Lock
- DestinationMatt Klinger
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- BridgeWilliam Lock
- DestinationMatt Klinger
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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