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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
Yanki Erel
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting10June 19, 2017View Roger Federer × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
7 meetings70August 8, 2022 — September 26, 2024View Karen Khachanov × Francisco Cerundolo →03 BridgeOpen career →Francisco Cerundolo
1 meeting10September 19, 2026View Francisco Cerundolo × Yanki Erel →04 DestinationOpen career →Yanki Erel
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
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeHamad Medjedovic
- DestinationYanki Erel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSumit Nagal
- BridgeFrancisco Cerundolo
- DestinationYanki Erel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeNicolas Barrientos
- DestinationYanki Erel
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- BridgeFrancisco Cerundolo
- DestinationYanki Erel
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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