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
Walter Barahona
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 4 meetings40May 13, 2002 — March 24, 2010View Roger Federer × Nicolas Lapentti →02 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Lapentti
1 meeting10April 11, 2008View Nicolas Lapentti × Jhonson Garcia →03 BridgeOpen career →Jhonson Garcia
1 meeting10February 9, 2001View Jhonson Garcia × Walter Barahona →04 DestinationOpen career →Walter Barahona
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationWalter Barahona
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePeter Polansky
- BridgeJhonson Garcia
- DestinationWalter Barahona
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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