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 Lock
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 meeting10February 7, 2003View William Lock × Bjorn Munroe →02 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Munroe
1 meeting01April 9, 2004View Bjorn Munroe × Alejandro Hernandez →03 BridgeOpen career →Alejandro Hernandez
1 meeting01February 9, 1996View Alejandro Hernandez × Todd Martin →04 BridgeOpen career →Todd Martin
1 meeting01February 9, 2001View Todd Martin × 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 Lock
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeMichael Chang
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginWilliam Lock
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeFilip Dewulf
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginWilliam Lock
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeKarim Alami
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginWilliam Lock
- BridgeBjorn Munroe
- BridgeAlejandro Hernandez
- BridgeGreg Rusedski
- 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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