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
Terence Nugent
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 →1 meeting10October 2, 2006View Roger Federer × Wesley Moodie →02 BridgeOpen career →Wesley Moodie
1 meeting10September 24, 2004View Wesley Moodie × Alexandros Jakupovic →03 BridgeOpen career →Alexandros Jakupovic
1 meeting10July 15, 2005View Alexandros Jakupovic × Terence Nugent →04 DestinationOpen career →Terence Nugent
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
- BridgeJean Rene Lisnard
- BridgeAlexandros Jakupovic
- DestinationTerence Nugent
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeBenjamin Balleret
- BridgeAlexandros Jakupovic
- DestinationTerence Nugent
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSergiy Stakhovsky
- BridgeAlexandros Jakupovic
- DestinationTerence Nugent
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAlexandr Dolgopolov
- BridgeAlexandros Jakupovic
- DestinationTerence Nugent
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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