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
Selvarajoo Selvarajoo
reaches
Roger Federer
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 meeting01January 13, 1984View Selvarajoo Selvarajoo × Islam Ul Haq →02 BridgeOpen career →Islam Ul Haq
1 meeting01March 8, 1985View Islam Ul Haq × Bong Soo Kim →03 BridgeOpen career →Bong Soo Kim
1 meeting01October 12, 1992View Bong Soo Kim × Guillaume Raoux →04 BridgeOpen career →Guillaume Raoux
2 meetings02September 28, 1998 — February 15, 1999View Guillaume Raoux × Roger Federer →05 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
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.
- OriginSelvarajoo Selvarajoo
- BridgeIslam Ul Haq
- BridgeBong Soo Kim
- BridgeRichard Krajicek
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginSelvarajoo Selvarajoo
- BridgeIslam Ul Haq
- BridgeBong Soo Kim
- BridgePatrick Rafter
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginSelvarajoo Selvarajoo
- BridgeIslam Ul Haq
- BridgeBong Soo Kim
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginSelvarajoo Selvarajoo
- BridgeFelix Barrientos
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationRoger Federer
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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