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
Yannik Alvarez
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 meeting01February 7, 2026View Yannik Alvarez × Maximus Jones →02 BridgeOpen career →Maximus Jones
1 meeting01September 19, 2026View Maximus Jones × Timofey Skatov →03 BridgeOpen career →Timofey Skatov
1 meeting01September 20, 2021View Timofey Skatov × Ilya Ivashka →04 BridgeOpen career →Ilya Ivashka
1 meeting01June 14, 2021View Ilya Ivashka × 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.
- OriginYannik Alvarez
- BridgeMaximus Jones
- BridgeTimofey Skatov
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginYannik Alvarez
- BridgeMaximus Jones
- BridgeTimofey Skatov
- BridgeHubert Hurkacz
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginYannik Alvarez
- BridgeMaximus Jones
- BridgeTimofey Skatov
- BridgeAndreas Seppi
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginYannik Alvarez
- BridgeMaximus Jones
- BridgeTimofey Skatov
- BridgeStan Wawrinka
- 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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