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
Mike Briggs
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 meeting10June 14, 1993View Cedric Pioline × Chuck Adams →03 BridgeOpen career →Chuck Adams
1 meeting10August 20, 1990View Chuck Adams × Mike Briggs →04 DestinationOpen career →Mike Briggs
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeChuck Adams
- DestinationMike Briggs
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- BridgeChuck Adams
- DestinationMike Briggs
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- BridgeChuck Adams
- DestinationMike Briggs
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- BridgeChuck Adams
- DestinationMike Briggs
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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