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
Antonio Van Grichen
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 meeting01April 6, 2001View Antonio Van Grichen × Martin Lee →02 BridgeOpen career →Martin Lee
1 meeting10June 26, 2006View Martin Lee × Dick Norman →03 BridgeOpen career →Dick Norman
1 meeting01October 23, 2006View Dick Norman × Richard Gasquet →04 BridgeOpen career →Richard Gasquet
2 meetings02July 19, 2021 — January 15, 2024View Richard Gasquet × 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.
- OriginAntonio Van Grichen
- BridgeMartin Lee
- BridgeDick Norman
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAntonio Van Grichen
- BridgeMartin Lee
- BridgeDick Norman
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAntonio Van Grichen
- BridgeMartin Lee
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAntonio Van Grichen
- BridgeMartin Lee
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- 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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