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
Luis Carlos Alvarez Valdes
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
01 2 meetings20January 15, 2018 — March 5, 2018View Roger Federer × Hyeon Chung →02 BridgeOpen career →Hyeon Chung
1 meeting10May 1, 2017View Hyeon Chung × Maximilian Marterer →03 BridgeOpen career →Maximilian Marterer
1 meeting10September 16, 2023View Maximilian Marterer × Andrej Nedic →04 BridgeOpen career →Andrej Nedic
1 meeting01September 16, 2022View Andrej Nedic × Luis Carlos Alvarez Valdes →05 DestinationOpen career →Luis Carlos Alvarez Valdes
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.
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationLuis Carlos Alvarez Valdes
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeJaume Munar
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationLuis Carlos Alvarez Valdes
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeTomas Martin Etcheverry
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationLuis Carlos Alvarez Valdes
- OriginRoger Federer
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeZizou Bergs
- BridgeMark Lajal
- DestinationLuis Carlos Alvarez Valdes
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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