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
Shinichi Nishino
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 meetings20January 16, 1989 — September 23, 1991View Gianluca Pozzi × Jim Grabb →03 BridgeOpen career →Jim Grabb
1 meeting10July 22, 1985View Jim Grabb × John Lloyd →04 BridgeOpen career →John Lloyd
1 meeting10September 13, 1976View John Lloyd × Bobby Webb →05 BridgeOpen career →Bobby Webb
1 meeting10October 19, 1981View Bobby Webb × Shinichi Nishino →06 DestinationOpen career →Shinichi Nishino
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
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeTim Gullikson
- BridgeBobby Webb
- DestinationShinichi Nishino
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeHarald Theissen
- BridgeBobby Webb
- DestinationShinichi Nishino
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeJohn Bartlett
- BridgeBobby Webb
- DestinationShinichi Nishino
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeVijay Amritraj
- BridgeKeith Richardson
- BridgeBobby Webb
- DestinationShinichi Nishino
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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