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
William Lock
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01September 28, 1998View Roger Federer × Jan Siemerink →02 BridgeOpen career →Jan Siemerink
1 meeting10September 25, 1998View Jan Siemerink × Giovanni Lapentti →03 BridgeOpen career →Giovanni Lapentti
1 meeting10February 13, 1998View Giovanni Lapentti × Bjorn Munroe →04 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Munroe
1 meeting01February 7, 2003View Bjorn Munroe × William Lock →05 DestinationOpen career →William Lock
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- DestinationWilliam Lock
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMichael Chang
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- DestinationWilliam Lock
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeFilip Dewulf
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- DestinationWilliam Lock
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDaniel Nestor
- BridgeMiguel Gallardo Valles
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- DestinationWilliam Lock
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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