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
Alvaro Betancur
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
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 1 meeting01July 21, 1980View Alvaro Betancur × Fernando Luna →02 BridgeOpen career →Fernando Luna
2 meetings02July 4, 1988 — May 1, 1989View Fernando Luna × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
3 meetings21October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Andre Agassi × Feliciano Lopez →04 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginAlvaro Betancur
- BridgeFernando Luna
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAlvaro Betancur
- BridgeFernando Luna
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAlvaro Betancur
- BridgeFernando Luna
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAlvaro Betancur
- BridgeFernando Luna
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- 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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