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
Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
Ali Ismaeel
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 2 meetings20April 18, 2022 — September 18, 2022View Carlos Alcaraz × Soon Woo Kwon →02 BridgeOpen career →Soon Woo Kwon
1 meeting01February 2, 2018View Soon Woo Kwon × Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi →03 BridgeOpen career →Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi
1 meeting01September 24, 2004View Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi × Mark Nielsen →04 BridgeOpen career →Mark Nielsen
1 meeting10April 11, 2008View Mark Nielsen × Ali Ismaeel →05 DestinationOpen career →Ali Ismaeel
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.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeFelix Mantilla
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationAli Ismaeel
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationAli Ismaeel
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeStefan Koubek
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationAli Ismaeel
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeVadim Kutsenko
- BridgeMark Nielsen
- DestinationAli Ismaeel
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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