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
Barunur Rashid Bhuiyan
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 meeting01April 7, 1989View Barunur Rashid Bhuiyan × Sunny Liu →02 BridgeOpen career →Sunny Liu
1 meeting01February 2, 1990View Sunny Liu × Yu Hui Lien →03 BridgeOpen career →Yu Hui Lien
2 meetings02June 14, 1991 — February 4, 1994View Yu Hui Lien × Adam Malik →04 BridgeOpen career →Adam Malik
1 meeting01January 4, 1993View Adam Malik × Fabrice Santoro →05 BridgeOpen career →Fabrice Santoro
1 meeting10March 7, 2005View Fabrice Santoro × Feliciano Lopez →06 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × 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.
- OriginBarunur Rashid Bhuiyan
- BridgeSunny Liu
- BridgeYu Hui Lien
- BridgeAdam Malik
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginBarunur Rashid Bhuiyan
- BridgeSunny Liu
- BridgeYu Hui Lien
- BridgeAdam Malik
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginBarunur Rashid Bhuiyan
- BridgeSunny Liu
- BridgeYu Hui Lien
- BridgeAdam Malik
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginBarunur Rashid Bhuiyan
- BridgeSunny Liu
- BridgeYu Hui Lien
- BridgeAdam Malik
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeAndy Murray
- 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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