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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Roger Federer
reaches
Regis Lavergne

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

352 players examined
  1. 11 meetings92September 27, 1999 — January 14, 2008
    View Roger Federer × Fabrice Santoro
  2. 2 meetings20September 22, 1997 — September 29, 1997
    View Fabrice Santoro × Regis Lavergne

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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