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
Ryan Henry
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20May 29, 2000 — May 28, 2001View Roger Federer × Wayne Arthurs →02 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Arthurs
1 meeting10September 30, 2002View Wayne Arthurs × Julian Knowle →03 BridgeOpen career →Julian Knowle
1 meeting10January 13, 2003View Julian Knowle × Ryan Henry →04 DestinationOpen career →Ryan Henry
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMichael Chang
- BridgeJulian Knowle
- DestinationRyan Henry
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeJulian Knowle
- DestinationRyan Henry
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSargis Sargsian
- BridgeJulian Knowle
- DestinationRyan Henry
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAlbert Portas
- BridgeJulian Knowle
- DestinationRyan Henry
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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