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
Bob Hewitt
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 1 meeting10March 5, 2025View Carlos Alcaraz × Quentin Halys →02 BridgeOpen career →Quentin Halys
2 meetings11July 24, 2017 — July 30, 2018View Quentin Halys × Gilles Muller →03 BridgeOpen career →Gilles Muller
1 meeting10April 28, 2000View Gilles Muller × Peter Clarke →04 BridgeOpen career →Peter Clarke
1 meeting01May 31, 1971View Peter Clarke × Bob Hewitt →05 DestinationOpen career →Bob Hewitt
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
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeGilles Muller
- BridgePeter Clarke
- DestinationBob Hewitt
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- BridgeGilles Muller
- BridgePeter Clarke
- DestinationBob Hewitt
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeTommy Paul
- BridgeGilles Muller
- BridgePeter Clarke
- DestinationBob Hewitt
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- BridgeGilles Muller
- BridgePeter Clarke
- DestinationBob Hewitt
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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