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
Ugo Colombini
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 11 meetings83October 5, 1998 — August 29, 2005View Roger Federer × Andre Agassi →02 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
1 meeting01March 7, 1988View Andre Agassi × Miloslav Mecir →03 BridgeOpen career →Miloslav Mecir
1 meeting10March 30, 1987View Miloslav Mecir × Ugo Colombini →04 DestinationOpen career →Ugo Colombini
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
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeTomas Smid
- DestinationUgo Colombini
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- DestinationUgo Colombini
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- DestinationUgo Colombini
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMichael Chang
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- DestinationUgo Colombini
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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