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
Catalin Gard
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20July 19, 2021 — January 15, 2024View Carlos Alcaraz × Richard Gasquet →02 BridgeOpen career →Richard Gasquet
4 meetings31October 23, 2006 — January 4, 2009View Richard Gasquet × Marc Gicquel →03 BridgeOpen career →Marc Gicquel
1 meeting10September 10, 2007View Marc Gicquel × Catalin Gard →04 DestinationOpen career →Catalin Gard
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- BridgeMarc Gicquel
- DestinationCatalin Gard
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndy Murray
- BridgeMarc Gicquel
- DestinationCatalin Gard
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeMarc Gicquel
- DestinationCatalin Gard
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- BridgeMarc Gicquel
- DestinationCatalin Gard
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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