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
Nortay Dowuona
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 12 meetings111January 7, 2002 — June 23, 2014View Roger Federer × Tommy Robredo →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Robredo
1 meeting10July 23, 2001View Tommy Robredo × Krystian Pfeiffer →03 BridgeOpen career →Krystian Pfeiffer
1 meeting10May 2, 1997View Krystian Pfeiffer × Nortay Dowuona →04 DestinationOpen career →Nortay Dowuona
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- BridgeKrystian Pfeiffer
- DestinationNortay Dowuona
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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