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
Eddy Chala
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 10 meetings55May 2, 2022 — January 19, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Novak Djokovic →02 BridgeOpen career →Novak Djokovic
1 meeting10August 29, 2011View Novak Djokovic × Conor Niland →03 BridgeOpen career →Conor Niland
1 meeting10March 6, 2009View Conor Niland × Eddy Chala →04 DestinationOpen career →Eddy Chala
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAdrian Mannarino
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationEddy Chala
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAttila Balazs
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationEddy Chala
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMarton Fucsovics
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationEddy Chala
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.
Reverse the route →