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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Tim Henman
reaches
Roger Federer

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 1 link and 2 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

275 players examined
  1. 13 meetings67October 4, 1999 — October 2, 2006
    View Tim Henman × Roger 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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