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
Zhe Li
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 14 meetings140June 6, 2005 — February 25, 2019View Roger Federer × Philipp Kohlschreiber →02 BridgeOpen career →Philipp Kohlschreiber
1 meeting10January 14, 2019View Philipp Kohlschreiber × Zhe Li →03 DestinationOpen career →Zhe Li
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
- BridgeFernando Verdasco
- DestinationZhe Li
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKevin Anderson
- DestinationZhe Li
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeMischa Zverev
- DestinationZhe Li
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeSam Querrey
- DestinationZhe Li
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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