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
William Kirkman
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 31, 2014View William Kirkman × Santiago Maresca →02 BridgeOpen career →Santiago Maresca
1 meeting01March 4, 2016View Santiago Maresca × Mauricio Echazu →03 BridgeOpen career →Mauricio Echazu
1 meeting01May 8, 2009View Mauricio Echazu × Nicolas Lapentti →04 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Lapentti
4 meetings04May 13, 2002 — March 24, 2010View Nicolas Lapentti × 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.
- OriginWilliam Kirkman
- BridgeSantiago Maresca
- BridgeMauricio Echazu
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginWilliam Kirkman
- BridgeSantiago Maresca
- BridgeMauricio Echazu
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginWilliam Kirkman
- BridgeSantiago Maresca
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginWilliam Kirkman
- BridgeSantiago Maresca
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- 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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