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
Tony Goold
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10February 10, 1992View Gianluca Pozzi × Jimmy Arias →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Arias
1 meeting10July 28, 1981View Jimmy Arias × Ilie Nastase →04 BridgeOpen career →Ilie Nastase
1 meeting01May 28, 1969View Ilie Nastase × Stanley Matthews →05 BridgeOpen career →Stanley Matthews
1 meeting10October 28, 1968View Stanley Matthews × Tony Goold →06 DestinationOpen career →Tony Goold
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeStanley Matthews
- DestinationTony Goold
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeMats Wilander
- BridgeAnand Amritraj
- BridgeStanley Matthews
- DestinationTony Goold
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeGuy Forget
- BridgePhil Dent
- BridgeStanley Matthews
- DestinationTony Goold
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGianluca Pozzi
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeSandy Mayer
- BridgeStanley Matthews
- DestinationTony Goold
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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