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 Sakamoto
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 meetings11September 28, 1998 — June 19, 2000View Roger Federer × Richard Fromberg →02 BridgeOpen career →Richard Fromberg
1 meeting10July 16, 1990View Richard Fromberg × Thierry Tulasne →03 BridgeOpen career →Thierry Tulasne
1 meeting10October 2, 1981View Thierry Tulasne × Shinichi Sakamoto →04 DestinationOpen career →Shinichi Sakamoto
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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