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
Philip Wilbert Major
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 meetings20April 27, 2015 — May 10, 2015View Roger Federer × Pablo Cuevas →02 BridgeOpen career →Pablo Cuevas
1 meeting10April 7, 2018View Pablo Cuevas × Ricardo Rodriguez →03 BridgeOpen career →Ricardo Rodriguez
1 meeting10February 3, 2017View Ricardo Rodriguez × Philip Wilbert Major →04 DestinationOpen career →Philip Wilbert Major
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
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- BridgeRicardo Rodriguez
- DestinationPhilip Wilbert Major
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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