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
Vishal Punna
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 1 meeting01August 7, 2000View Roger Federer × Francisco Clavet →02 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Clavet
1 meeting10September 24, 1999View Francisco Clavet × Mark Nielsen →03 BridgeOpen career →Mark Nielsen
1 meeting10February 6, 2004View Mark Nielsen × Vishal Punna →04 DestinationOpen career →Vishal Punna
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
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationVishal Punna
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFelix Mantilla
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationVishal Punna
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarcelo Rios
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationVishal Punna
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationVishal Punna
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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