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
Balazs Veress
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10July 12, 2002View Balazs Veress × Rik De Voest →02 BridgeOpen career →Rik De Voest
1 meeting01March 10, 2011View Rik De Voest × Rafael Nadal →03 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Nadal
3 meetings21May 3, 2021 — May 2, 2022View Rafael Nadal × Carlos Alcaraz →04 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginBalazs Veress
- BridgeRik De Voest
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginBalazs Veress
- BridgeRik De Voest
- BridgeAdrian Mannarino
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginBalazs Veress
- BridgeRik De Voest
- BridgeMarin Cilic
- 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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