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
Phillip Harboe
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 5 meetings50June 25, 2001 — January 15, 2007View Roger Federer × Jonas Bjorkman →02 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
1 meeting01July 5, 2004View Jonas Bjorkman × Santiago Ventura →03 BridgeOpen career →Santiago Ventura
1 meeting10January 31, 2005View Santiago Ventura × Phillip Harboe →04 DestinationOpen career →Phillip Harboe
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
- BridgeHicham Arazi
- BridgeSantiago Ventura
- DestinationPhillip Harboe
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAlex Corretja
- BridgeSantiago Ventura
- DestinationPhillip Harboe
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTomas Behrend
- BridgeSantiago Ventura
- DestinationPhillip Harboe
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTomas Zib
- BridgeSantiago Ventura
- DestinationPhillip Harboe
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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