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
Vladimir Obradovic
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 3 meetings21April 2, 1999 — January 28, 2002View Roger Federer × Davide Sanguinetti →02 BridgeOpen career →Davide Sanguinetti
1 meeting01June 26, 2000View Davide Sanguinetti × Justin Bower →03 BridgeOpen career →Justin Bower
1 meeting10May 3, 2002View Justin Bower × Vladimir Obradovic →04 DestinationOpen career →Vladimir Obradovic
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
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- BridgeJustin Bower
- DestinationVladimir Obradovic
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- BridgeJustin Bower
- DestinationVladimir Obradovic
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeStefan Koubek
- BridgeJustin Bower
- DestinationVladimir Obradovic
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- BridgeJustin Bower
- DestinationVladimir Obradovic
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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