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
Ron Dutton
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 meeting01June 7, 1999View Roger Federer × Byron Black →02 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
2 meetings20August 12, 1996 — June 23, 1997View Byron Black × Pat Cash →03 BridgeOpen career →Pat Cash
2 meetings20December 20, 1982 — December 28, 1982View Pat Cash × Rod Frawley →04 BridgeOpen career →Rod Frawley
1 meeting10January 10, 1983View Rod Frawley × David Graham →05 BridgeOpen career →David Graham
1 meeting10January 10, 1983View David Graham × Ron Dutton →06 DestinationOpen career →Ron Dutton
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
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgeDavid Graham
- DestinationRon Dutton
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- BridgeJim Pugh
- BridgeJohn Sadri
- BridgeDavid Graham
- DestinationRon Dutton
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJim Pugh
- BridgeJohn Sadri
- BridgeDavid Graham
- DestinationRon Dutton
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgeDavid Graham
- DestinationRon Dutton
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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