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
Gwinyai Chingoka
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 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
1 meeting01March 7, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Fabrice Santoro →03 BridgeOpen career →Fabrice Santoro
1 meeting10October 10, 1994View Fabrice Santoro × Jonathan Erlich →04 BridgeOpen career →Jonathan Erlich
1 meeting10July 11, 2003View Jonathan Erlich × Gwinyai Chingoka →05 DestinationOpen career →Gwinyai Chingoka
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeRainer Schuettler
- BridgeJonathan Erlich
- DestinationGwinyai Chingoka
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeJustin Gimelstob
- BridgeJonathan Erlich
- DestinationGwinyai Chingoka
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeVadim Kutsenko
- BridgeJonathan Erlich
- DestinationGwinyai Chingoka
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeJonathan Erlich
- DestinationGwinyai Chingoka
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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