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
Usman Rahim
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 meeting10April 8, 1996View Gianluca Pozzi × Brett Steven →03 BridgeOpen career →Brett Steven
1 meeting10October 19, 1992View Brett Steven × Yu Hui Lien →04 BridgeOpen career →Yu Hui Lien
1 meeting10March 30, 1990View Yu Hui Lien × Faisal Rahman →05 BridgeOpen career →Faisal Rahman
1 meeting01June 16, 1989View Faisal Rahman × Usman Rahim →06 DestinationOpen career →Usman Rahim
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
- BridgeGuillaume Raoux
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeHamed Ul Haq
- BridgeFaisal Rahman
- DestinationUsman Rahim
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- BridgeToshihisa Tsuchihashi
- BridgeChung Hsing Liu
- BridgeFaisal Rahman
- DestinationUsman Rahim
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRussell Simpson
- BridgeChung Hsing Liu
- BridgeFaisal Rahman
- DestinationUsman Rahim
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSergi Bruguera
- BridgeEui Jong Chang
- BridgeYu Hui Lien
- BridgeFaisal Rahman
- DestinationUsman Rahim
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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