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 Kadhim
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
5 meetings32October 14, 2002 — August 8, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Younes El Aynaoui →03 BridgeOpen career →Younes El Aynaoui
1 meeting10March 24, 1997View Younes El Aynaoui × Oleg Ogorodov →04 BridgeOpen career →Oleg Ogorodov
1 meeting10February 23, 1996View Oleg Ogorodov × Esam Abdulaal →05 BridgeOpen career →Esam Abdulaal
1 meeting10February 2, 1990View Esam Abdulaal × Ali Kadhim →06 DestinationOpen career →Ali Kadhim
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeEsam Abdulaal
- DestinationAli Kadhim
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeEsam Abdulaal
- DestinationAli Kadhim
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeYevgeny Kafelnikov
- BridgeDmitri Tomashevich
- BridgeEsam Abdulaal
- DestinationAli Kadhim
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeKarol Kucera
- BridgeDmitri Tomashevich
- BridgeEsam Abdulaal
- DestinationAli Kadhim
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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