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
Thorsten Poelzl
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20January 17, 2005 — October 2, 2006View Roger Federer × Takao Suzuki →02 BridgeOpen career →Takao Suzuki
1 meeting10March 31, 1995View Takao Suzuki × Thorsten Poelzl →03 DestinationOpen career →Thorsten Poelzl
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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