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
Rafael Goscinny
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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
3 meetings21April 29, 1991 — October 31, 1994View Francisco Clavet × Marcelo Filippini →03 BridgeOpen career →Marcelo Filippini
1 meeting10February 7, 1997View Marcelo Filippini × Jose Baires →04 BridgeOpen career →Jose Baires
1 meeting10April 4, 1997View Jose Baires × Rafael Goscinny →05 DestinationOpen career →Rafael Goscinny
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCedric Pioline
- BridgeMarcelo Filippini
- BridgeJose Baires
- DestinationRafael Goscinny
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- BridgeMarcelo Filippini
- BridgeJose Baires
- DestinationRafael Goscinny
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- BridgeMarcelo Filippini
- BridgeJose Baires
- DestinationRafael Goscinny
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- BridgeMarcelo Filippini
- BridgeJose Baires
- DestinationRafael Goscinny
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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