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
Tom Spinks
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 meetings20October 9, 2000 — June 17, 2002View Roger Federer × Richard Krajicek →02 BridgeOpen career →Richard Krajicek
3 meetings21February 3, 1995 — August 30, 1999View Richard Krajicek × Lorenzo Manta →03 BridgeOpen career →Lorenzo Manta
1 meeting10June 21, 1999View Lorenzo Manta × Tom Spinks →04 DestinationOpen career →Tom Spinks
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
- BridgeKarim Alami
- BridgeLorenzo Manta
- DestinationTom Spinks
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSargis Sargsian
- BridgeLorenzo Manta
- DestinationTom Spinks
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJerome Golmard
- BridgeLorenzo Manta
- DestinationTom Spinks
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeYevgeny Kafelnikov
- BridgeLorenzo Manta
- DestinationTom Spinks
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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