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
Roger Federer
reaches
Jose Benitez
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 6 meetings60January 7, 2002 — March 10, 2011View Roger Federer × Juan Ignacio Chela →02 BridgeOpen career →Juan Ignacio Chela
1 meeting10February 27, 2012View Juan Ignacio Chela × Cesar Ramirez →03 BridgeOpen career →Cesar Ramirez
1 meeting10July 9, 2010View Cesar Ramirez × Jose Benitez →04 DestinationOpen career →Jose Benitez
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.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgeCesar Ramirez
- DestinationJose Benitez
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeNicolas Almagro
- BridgeCesar Ramirez
- DestinationJose Benitez
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeRafael Arevalo
- BridgeSeanon Williams
- DestinationJose Benitez
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgePeter Polansky
- BridgeCesar Ramirez
- DestinationJose Benitez
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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