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
Vittaya Samrej
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01April 4, 1997View Vittaya Samrej × Ali Hamadeh →02 BridgeOpen career →Ali Hamadeh
1 meeting10February 9, 2001View Ali Hamadeh × Mohammad Ghareeb →03 BridgeOpen career →Mohammad Ghareeb
1 meeting01February 27, 2006View Mohammad Ghareeb × Roger Federer →04 DestinationOpen career →Roger Federer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginVittaya Samrej
- BridgeMelvin Tong
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginVittaya Samrej
- BridgeMelvin Tong
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginVittaya Samrej
- BridgeMelvin Tong
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- 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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