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
Uli Heyne
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 meeting01January 4, 1993View Gianluca Pozzi × Stefan Edberg →03 BridgeOpen career →Stefan Edberg
1 meeting01October 29, 1984View Stefan Edberg × Sandy Mayer →04 BridgeOpen career →Sandy Mayer
1 meeting10July 23, 1973View Sandy Mayer × Erwin Jager →05 BridgeOpen career →Erwin Jager
1 meeting10July 23, 1973View Erwin Jager × Uli Heyne →06 DestinationOpen career →Uli Heyne
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
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeSandy Mayer
- BridgeErwin Jager
- DestinationUli Heyne
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeTomas Smid
- BridgeEric Deblicker
- BridgeErwin Jager
- DestinationUli Heyne
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeAndreas Maurer
- BridgeEric Deblicker
- BridgeErwin Jager
- DestinationUli Heyne
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePete Sampras
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeSandy Mayer
- BridgeErwin Jager
- DestinationUli Heyne
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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