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
Rob Cadwaller
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 meeting10September 13, 1999View Roger Federer × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01May 15, 1989View Cedric Pioline × Jimmy Connors →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
1 meeting10February 14, 1971View Jimmy Connors × Ingo Buding →04 BridgeOpen career →Ingo Buding
1 meeting10March 1, 1971View Ingo Buding × Rob Cadwaller →05— DestinationOpen career →Rob Cadwaller
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
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeIngo Buding
- —DestinationRob Cadwaller
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeIngo Buding
- —DestinationRob Cadwaller
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeIngo Buding
- —DestinationRob Cadwaller
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgeIngo Buding
- —DestinationRob Cadwaller
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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