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.
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Shortest path found

Roger Federer
reaches
Juan Carlos Prado Angelo

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

359 players examined
  1. 3 meetings30May 24, 2015 — August 26, 2019
    View Roger Federer × Damir Dzumhur

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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