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
Randall Verdieck
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 meeting10June 25, 2001View Roger Federer × Pete Sampras →02 BridgeOpen career →Pete Sampras
1 meeting10February 29, 1988View Pete Sampras × Eliot Teltscher →03 BridgeOpen career →Eliot Teltscher
1 meeting10November 28, 1978View Eliot Teltscher × Marco Consolini →04 BridgeOpen career →Marco Consolini
1 meeting10August 2, 1971View Marco Consolini × Randall Verdieck →05 DestinationOpen career →Randall Verdieck
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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