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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
Sander Groen
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 OriginOpen career →2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
2 meetings20September 30, 1991 — October 19, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × Andrei Chesnokov →03 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Chesnokov
1 meeting10January 8, 1996View Andrei Chesnokov × Sander Groen →04 DestinationOpen career →Sander Groen
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
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeAlexander Volkov
- DestinationSander Groen
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeFrederik Fetterlein
- DestinationSander Groen
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeArne Thoms
- DestinationSander Groen
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeDavid Rikl
- DestinationSander Groen
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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