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
Abdullah Al Khalil
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01February 3, 1989View Abdullah Al Khalil × Khaled Al Foudari →02 BridgeOpen career →Khaled Al Foudari
1 meeting01February 3, 1989View Khaled Al Foudari × Hani Al Ali →03 BridgeOpen career →Hani Al Ali
1 meeting01February 2, 1990View Hani Al Ali × Selvam Veerasingam →04 BridgeOpen career →Selvam Veerasingam
1 meeting01April 6, 2001View Selvam Veerasingam × Yen Hsun Lu →05 BridgeOpen career →Yen Hsun Lu
2 meetings20January 9, 2017 — August 28, 2017View Yen Hsun Lu × Karen Khachanov →06 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
6 meetings06May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Karen Khachanov × Carlos Alcaraz →07 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAbdullah Al Khalil
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- BridgeHani Al Ali
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeReilly Opelka
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAbdullah Al Khalil
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- BridgeHani Al Ali
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAbdullah Al Khalil
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- BridgeHani Al Ali
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAbdullah Al Khalil
- BridgeKhaled Al Foudari
- BridgeHani Al Ali
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeAleksandar Vukic
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
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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