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
Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
Dede Suhendar Dinata
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 meeting10August 14, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Jordan Thompson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
1 meeting01June 20, 2016View Jordan Thompson × Benjamin Becker →03 BridgeOpen career →Benjamin Becker
1 meeting10October 1, 2007View Benjamin Becker × Takao Suzuki →04 BridgeOpen career →Takao Suzuki
1 meeting10February 13, 1998View Takao Suzuki × Dede Suhendar Dinata →05 DestinationOpen career →Dede Suhendar Dinata
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.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeJordan Thompson
- BridgeDavid Ferrer
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- DestinationDede Suhendar Dinata
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeJordan Thompson
- BridgeGilles Simon
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- DestinationDede Suhendar Dinata
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeJordan Thompson
- BridgeYuichi Sugita
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- DestinationDede Suhendar Dinata
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMackenzie McDonald
- BridgeGilles Simon
- BridgeTakao Suzuki
- DestinationDede Suhendar Dinata
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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