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
Sergio Rojas
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 1 meeting01July 6, 1998View Roger Federer × Lucas Arnold Ker →02 BridgeOpen career →Lucas Arnold Ker
1 meeting10September 19, 1997View Lucas Arnold Ker × Jose De Armas →03 BridgeOpen career →Jose De Armas
1 meeting10March 4, 2005View Jose De Armas × Sergio Rojas →04 DestinationOpen career →Sergio Rojas
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
- BridgeMarcelo Rios
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationSergio Rojas
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFrederic Niemeyer
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationSergio Rojas
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationSergio Rojas
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeJose De Armas
- DestinationSergio Rojas
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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