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
Shibu Lal
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 meeting01March 27, 1992View Shibu Lal × Mohammed Khalid →02 BridgeOpen career →Mohammed Khalid
1 meeting01February 1, 1992View Mohammed Khalid × Michael Walker →03 BridgeOpen career →Michael Walker
1 meeting01April 13, 1992View Michael Walker × Martin Damm Sr →04 BridgeOpen career →Martin Damm Sr
1 meeting01October 4, 1999View Martin Damm Sr × 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.
- OriginShibu Lal
- BridgeRashid Malik
- BridgeAdam Malik
- BridgeRichard Krajicek
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginShibu Lal
- BridgeRashid Malik
- BridgeAdam Malik
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginShibu Lal
- BridgeRashid Malik
- BridgeBing Pan
- BridgeRichard Krajicek
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginShibu Lal
- BridgeRashid Malik
- BridgeBing Pan
- BridgeJerome Golmard
- 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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