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
Daniel Kosakowski
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 1 meeting10August 14, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Jordan Thompson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
3 meetings03January 16, 2017 — March 4, 2019View Jordan Thompson × Dominic Thiem →03 BridgeOpen career →Dominic Thiem
1 meeting10March 6, 2014View Dominic Thiem × Daniel Kosakowski →04 DestinationOpen career →Daniel Kosakowski
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
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeErnests Gulbis
- DestinationDaniel Kosakowski
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeDominic Thiem
- DestinationDaniel Kosakowski
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeTim Smyczek
- DestinationDaniel Kosakowski
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeErnests Gulbis
- DestinationDaniel Kosakowski
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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