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
Matthew Prentice
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 2 meetings20January 17, 2005 — October 2, 2006View Roger Federer × Takao Suzuki →02 BridgeOpen career →Takao Suzuki
1 meeting10February 6, 2004View Takao Suzuki × Prima Simpatiaji →03 BridgeOpen career →Prima Simpatiaji
1 meeting10April 9, 2004View Prima Simpatiaji × Matthew Prentice →04 DestinationOpen career →Matthew Prentice
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgePrima Simpatiaji
- DestinationMatthew Prentice
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMohammad Ghareeb
- BridgePrima Simpatiaji
- DestinationMatthew Prentice
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDenis Istomin
- BridgePrima Simpatiaji
- DestinationMatthew Prentice
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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