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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
Yuval Karutzi
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 OriginOpen career →2 meetings11April 2, 1999 — February 28, 2000View Roger Federer × Gianluca Pozzi →02 BridgeOpen career →Gianluca Pozzi
1 meeting10July 24, 1989View Gianluca Pozzi × Richard Matuszewski →03 BridgeOpen career →Richard Matuszewski
1 meeting10October 12, 1992View Richard Matuszewski × Gil Kovalski →04 BridgeOpen career →Gil Kovalski
1 meeting10October 8, 1990View Gil Kovalski × Yuval Karutzi →05 DestinationOpen career →Yuval Karutzi
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
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeGil Kovalski
- DestinationYuval Karutzi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMagnus Larsson
- BridgeRichard Matuszewski
- BridgeGil Kovalski
- DestinationYuval Karutzi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeJan Siemerink
- BridgeRichard Matuszewski
- BridgeGil Kovalski
- DestinationYuval Karutzi
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMichael Chang
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeGil Kovalski
- DestinationYuval Karutzi
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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