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
O Issara
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 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10April 20, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × Kelly Evernden →03 BridgeOpen career →Kelly Evernden
1 meeting10May 8, 1987View Kelly Evernden × Chang Rung Wu →04 BridgeOpen career →Chang Rung Wu
1 meeting10October 31, 1979View Chang Rung Wu × Supoj Meesawad →05 BridgeOpen career →Supoj Meesawad
1 meeting10November 17, 1980View Supoj Meesawad × O Issara →06 DestinationOpen career →O Issara
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
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeKelly Evernden
- BridgeChang Rung Wu
- BridgeSupoj Meesawad
- DestinationO Issara
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeFerdi Taygan
- BridgeSupoj Meesawad
- DestinationO Issara
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeFerdi Taygan
- BridgeSupoj Meesawad
- DestinationO Issara
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- BridgeToshihisa Tsuchihashi
- BridgeChang Rung Wu
- BridgeSupoj Meesawad
- DestinationO Issara
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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