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
Christopher Lai
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 2 meetings20April 18, 2022 — September 18, 2022View Carlos Alcaraz × Soon Woo Kwon →02 BridgeOpen career →Soon Woo Kwon
1 meeting01February 2, 2018View Soon Woo Kwon × Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi →03 BridgeOpen career →Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi
1 meeting10April 7, 2000View Aisam Ul Haq Qureshi × Chia Yen Tsai →04 BridgeOpen career →Chia Yen Tsai
1 meeting10April 3, 1998View Chia Yen Tsai × Christopher Lai →05 DestinationOpen career →Christopher Lai
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
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeChih Jung Chen
- DestinationChristopher Lai
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeChih Jung Chen
- DestinationChristopher Lai
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeChih Jung Chen
- DestinationChristopher Lai
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeAisam Ul Haq Qureshi
- BridgeChia Yen Tsai
- DestinationChristopher Lai
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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