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
R Speeny
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 1 meeting01August 7, 2000View Roger Federer × Francisco Clavet →02 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Clavet
2 meetings20July 27, 1992 — May 24, 1993View Francisco Clavet × Claudio Mezzadri →03 BridgeOpen career →Claudio Mezzadri
1 meeting10July 23, 1984View Claudio Mezzadri × Georges Goven →04 BridgeOpen career →Georges Goven
1 meeting10April 8, 1972View Georges Goven × Andre Van Der Merwe B →05 BridgeOpen career →Andre Van Der Merwe B
1 meeting10August 1, 1972View Andre Van Der Merwe B × R Speeny →06 DestinationOpen career →R Speeny
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
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeNeale Fraser
- BridgeAndre Van Der Merwe B
- DestinationR Speeny
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeBob Hewitt
- BridgeAndre Van Der Merwe B
- DestinationR Speeny
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeMark Cox
- BridgeAndre Van Der Merwe B
- DestinationR Speeny
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeClaudio Mezzadri
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeAndre Van Der Merwe B
- DestinationR Speeny
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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