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
Wolfgang Truller
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 meeting10September 13, 1999View Roger Federer × Cedric Pioline →02 BridgeOpen career →Cedric Pioline
1 meeting01May 15, 1989View Cedric Pioline × Jimmy Connors →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
2 meetings20March 6, 1972 — September 25, 1972View Jimmy Connors × Pierre Barthes →04 BridgeOpen career →Pierre Barthes
1 meeting10May 19, 1969View Pierre Barthes × Wolfgang Truller →05 DestinationOpen career →Wolfgang Truller
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
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePierre Barthes
- DestinationWolfgang Truller
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePierre Barthes
- DestinationWolfgang Truller
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePierre Barthes
- DestinationWolfgang Truller
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- BridgeJimmy Connors
- BridgePierre Barthes
- DestinationWolfgang Truller
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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