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
Steve Mcdonald
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01September 22, 1968View Steve Mcdonald × John Spiegel →02 BridgeOpen career →John Spiegel
1 meeting01October 2, 1968View John Spiegel × Tom Leonard →03 BridgeOpen career →Tom Leonard
1 meeting10June 26, 1978View Tom Leonard × Paul Mcnamee →04 BridgeOpen career →Paul Mcnamee
1 meeting01September 1, 1987View Paul Mcnamee × Michael Chang →05 BridgeOpen career →Michael Chang
5 meetings14January 17, 2000 — August 26, 2002View Michael Chang × Roger Federer →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSteve Mcdonald
- BridgeJohn Spiegel
- BridgeTom Leonard
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginSteve Mcdonald
- BridgeJohn Spiegel
- BridgeTom Leonard
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeAndrei Medvedev
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginSteve Mcdonald
- BridgeJohn Spiegel
- BridgeTom Leonard
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginSteve Mcdonald
- BridgeJohn Spiegel
- BridgeTom Leonard
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgePete Sampras
- 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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