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
Sadao Kosugi
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 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings20October 16, 1989 — October 16, 1995View Gianluca Pozzi × Kelly Jones →03 BridgeOpen career →Kelly Jones
1 meeting01February 9, 1987View Kelly Jones × Terry Moor →04 BridgeOpen career →Terry Moor
1 meeting10October 23, 1978View Terry Moor × Kenichi Hirai →05 BridgeOpen career →Kenichi Hirai
1 meeting10October 13, 1974View Kenichi Hirai × Sadao Kosugi →06 DestinationOpen career →Sadao Kosugi
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJim Grabb
- BridgeHank Pfister
- BridgeKenichi Hirai
- DestinationSadao Kosugi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeDick Stockton
- BridgeKenichi Hirai
- DestinationSadao Kosugi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeRicardo Cano
- BridgeKenichi Hirai
- DestinationSadao Kosugi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeRoscoe Tanner
- BridgeKenichi Hirai
- DestinationSadao Kosugi
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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