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
Yahiya Doumbia
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20September 28, 1998 — February 15, 1999View Roger Federer × Guillaume Raoux →02 BridgeOpen career →Guillaume Raoux
2 meetings02October 18, 1993 — September 11, 1995View Guillaume Raoux × Yahiya Doumbia →03 DestinationOpen career →Yahiya Doumbia
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRichard Fromberg
- DestinationYahiya Doumbia
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationYahiya Doumbia
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- DestinationYahiya Doumbia
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeDavid Prinosil
- DestinationYahiya Doumbia
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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