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
Nick Lindahl
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 11 meetings101July 16, 1999 — June 25, 2012View Roger Federer × Xavier Malisse →02 BridgeOpen career →Xavier Malisse
1 meeting10April 5, 2010View Xavier Malisse × Nick Lindahl →03 DestinationOpen career →Nick Lindahl
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- DestinationNick Lindahl
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRobby Ginepri
- DestinationNick Lindahl
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFlorian Mayer
- DestinationNick Lindahl
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJimmy Wang
- DestinationNick Lindahl
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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