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 Sherman
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 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 BridgeOpen career →Bob Hewitt
1 meeting10March 24, 1970View Bob Hewitt × Harald Elschenbroich →06 BridgeOpen career →Harald Elschenbroich
1 meeting10July 8, 1968View Harald Elschenbroich × Bob Sherman →07 DestinationOpen career →Bob Sherman
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.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeGilles Muller
- BridgePeter Clarke
- BridgeBob Hewitt
- BridgeHarald Elschenbroich
- DestinationBob Sherman
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJim Pugh
- BridgeBrad Drewett
- BridgeHarald Elschenbroich
- DestinationBob Sherman
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeMassimiliano Narducci
- BridgeGuillermo Vilas
- BridgeHarald Elschenbroich
- DestinationBob Sherman
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeMassimiliano Narducci
- BridgeBrad Drewett
- BridgeHarald Elschenbroich
- DestinationBob Sherman
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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