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
Alejandro Mendoza
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 3, 2018View Alejandro Mendoza × Jorge Brian Panta Herreros →02Open career → 1 meeting01April 5, 2013View Jorge Brian Panta Herreros × Luis David Martinez →03 BridgeOpen career →Luis David Martinez
2 meetings20July 15, 2016 — April 7, 2017View Luis David Martinez × Rafael Arevalo →04 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Arevalo
1 meeting01August 11, 2008View Rafael Arevalo × 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.
- OriginAlejandro Mendoza
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- BridgePaul Capdeville
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAlejandro Mendoza
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- BridgeSantiago Giraldo
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAlejandro Mendoza
- BridgeMartin Cuevas
- BridgeThomaz Bellucci
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginAlejandro Mendoza
- BridgeRoberto Quiroz
- BridgeNoah Rubin
- 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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