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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
Jing Yi Li

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

1,189 players examined
  1. 4 meetings31October 25, 2021 — July 3, 2023
    View Carlos Alcaraz × Matteo Berrettini
  2. 1 meeting10August 31, 2020
    View Matteo Berrettini × Go Soeda
  3. 2 meetings20February 8, 2008 — March 4, 2011
    View Go Soeda × Johnny Arcilla
  4. 1 meeting10February 6, 2004
    View Johnny Arcilla × Jing Yi Li

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.

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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