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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
No date limit

Shortest path found

Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
Brian Millar

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

3,034 players examined
  1. 3 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005
    View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi
  2. 7 meetings52February 24, 1986 — September 22, 1995
    View Andre Agassi × Mats Wilander
  3. 1 meeting10August 9, 1982
    View Mats Wilander × Trey Waltke
  4. 1 meeting10August 11, 1980
    View Trey Waltke × Brian Millar

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.

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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