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
Guillermo Carter
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 1 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
2 meetings20January 17, 2011 — October 7, 2012View Feliciano Lopez × Alejandro Falla →03 BridgeOpen career →Alejandro Falla
1 meeting10April 7, 2006View Alejandro Falla × Emilio Daniel Baez Britez →04Open career → 1 meeting10February 8, 2002View Emilio Daniel Baez Britez × Peit Hein Boekel →05 BridgeOpen career →Peit Hein Boekel
1 meeting01February 7, 2003View Peit Hein Boekel × Guillermo Carter →06 DestinationOpen career →Guillermo Carter
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
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgePeit Hein Boekel
- DestinationGuillermo Carter
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgePeit Hein Boekel
- DestinationGuillermo Carter
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgePeit Hein Boekel
- DestinationGuillermo Carter
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndy Murray
- BridgeAlejandro Falla
- BridgePeit Hein Boekel
- DestinationGuillermo Carter
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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