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
Aziz Avganov
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 6 meetings60May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
2 meetings02January 9, 2017 — August 28, 2017View Karen Khachanov × Yen Hsun Lu →03 BridgeOpen career →Yen Hsun Lu
2 meetings11February 7, 2003 — April 11, 2008View Yen Hsun Lu × Alexey Kedryuk →04 BridgeOpen career →Alexey Kedryuk
1 meeting10July 15, 2005View Alexey Kedryuk × Ashkan Shokoofi →05 BridgeOpen career →Ashkan Shokoofi
1 meeting10April 4, 2003View Ashkan Shokoofi × Aziz Avganov →06 DestinationOpen career →Aziz Avganov
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
- BridgeReilly Opelka
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeAlexey Kedryuk
- BridgeAshkan Shokoofi
- DestinationAziz Avganov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRoman Safiullin
- BridgeYuki Bhambri
- BridgeYew Ming Si
- BridgeAshkan Shokoofi
- DestinationAziz Avganov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeSoon Woo Kwon
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeYew Ming Si
- BridgeAshkan Shokoofi
- DestinationAziz Avganov
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeSoon Woo Kwon
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeHiu Tung Yu
- BridgeAshkan Shokoofi
- DestinationAziz Avganov
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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