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
El Hadj Diedhiou
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
01 6 meetings51November 13, 2023 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Andrey Rublev →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrey Rublev
1 meeting10May 17, 2015View Andrey Rublev × Jarkko Nieminen →03 BridgeOpen career →Jarkko Nieminen
1 meeting10July 21, 2006View Jarkko Nieminen × Abdelhak Hameurlaine →04 BridgeOpen career →Abdelhak Hameurlaine
1 meeting01October 8, 1993View Abdelhak Hameurlaine × Emmanuel Udozorh →05 BridgeOpen career →Emmanuel Udozorh
1 meeting10April 29, 1994View Emmanuel Udozorh × El Hadj Diedhiou →06 DestinationOpen career →El Hadj Diedhiou
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.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJeff Tarango
- BridgeSule Ladipo
- DestinationEl Hadj Diedhiou
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJason Stoltenberg
- BridgeSule Ladipo
- DestinationEl Hadj Diedhiou
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeNicolas Pereira
- BridgeSule Ladipo
- DestinationEl Hadj Diedhiou
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeMarc Rosset
- BridgeSule Ladipo
- DestinationEl Hadj Diedhiou
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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