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
Fredrik Ask
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 meetings20April 17, 2023 — January 13, 2025View Carlos Alcaraz × Nuno Borges →02 BridgeOpen career →Nuno Borges
1 meeting10February 1, 2025View Nuno Borges × Benjamin Balleret →03 BridgeOpen career →Benjamin Balleret
1 meeting10July 9, 2010View Benjamin Balleret × Fredrik Ask →04 DestinationOpen career →Fredrik Ask
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
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeBenjamin Balleret
- DestinationFredrik Ask
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMarin Cilic
- BridgeLuka Gregorc
- DestinationFredrik Ask
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGrigor Dimitrov
- BridgeBenjamin Balleret
- DestinationFredrik Ask
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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