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
Jose Benitez
reaches
Roger Federer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01July 9, 2010View Jose Benitez × Cesar Ramirez →02 BridgeOpen career →Cesar Ramirez
1 meeting01February 27, 2012View Cesar Ramirez × Juan Ignacio Chela →03 BridgeOpen career →Juan Ignacio Chela
6 meetings06January 7, 2002 — March 10, 2011View Juan Ignacio Chela × Roger Federer →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJose Benitez
- BridgeCesar Ramirez
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJose Benitez
- BridgeCesar Ramirez
- BridgeNicolas Almagro
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJose Benitez
- BridgeCesar Ramirez
- BridgePeter Polansky
- DestinationRoger Federer
- OriginJose Benitez
- BridgeSeanon Williams
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- 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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