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
Tahsin Gursoy
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10September 18, 2000View Roger Federer × Karim Alami →02 BridgeOpen career →Karim Alami
1 meeting10March 23, 1990View Karim Alami × Ahmed El Mehelmy →03 BridgeOpen career →Ahmed El Mehelmy
1 meeting01September 14, 1979View Ahmed El Mehelmy × Matti Timonen →04 BridgeOpen career →Matti Timonen
1 meeting10April 19, 1974View Matti Timonen × Tahsin Gursoy →05 DestinationOpen career →Tahsin Gursoy
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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