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

Kodjo Charles Alipoe Tchotchodji
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

2,485 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01September 13, 2024
    View Faris Zakaryia × Mate Valkusz
  2. 1 meeting01September 14, 2018
    View Mate Valkusz × Lukas Rosol
  3. 2 meetings02February 24, 2014 — April 13, 2014
    View Lukas Rosol × Roger Federer

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 1 more sequence 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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