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
Ponkaphan Phisaimongket
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 meeting10October 11, 1993View Gianluca Pozzi × Mats Wilander →03 BridgeOpen career →Mats Wilander
1 meeting10March 4, 1983View Mats Wilander × Justedjo Tarik →04 BridgeOpen career →Justedjo Tarik
1 meeting01January 22, 1982View Justedjo Tarik × Rudy Foo →05 BridgeOpen career →Rudy Foo
1 meeting01January 9, 1981View Rudy Foo × Ponkaphan Phisaimongket →06 DestinationOpen career →Ponkaphan Phisaimongket
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeTintus Arianto Wibowo
- BridgeRudy Foo
- DestinationPonkaphan Phisaimongket
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeSombat Uamongkol
- BridgeRudy Foo
- DestinationPonkaphan Phisaimongket
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeArjun Fernando
- BridgeRudy Foo
- DestinationPonkaphan Phisaimongket
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrancisco Clavet
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeJustedjo Tarik
- BridgeRudy Foo
- DestinationPonkaphan Phisaimongket
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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