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
Jay Lapidus
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 meeting10August 25, 2025View Carlos Alcaraz × Reilly Opelka →02 BridgeOpen career →Reilly Opelka
1 meeting01April 10, 2017View Reilly Opelka × Tommy Haas →03 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
2 meetings11August 12, 1996 — March 1, 1999View Tommy Haas × Mark Woodforde →04 BridgeOpen career →Mark Woodforde
1 meeting01November 25, 1985View Mark Woodforde × Jay Lapidus →05 DestinationOpen career →Jay Lapidus
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
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- DestinationJay Lapidus
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeMats Wilander
- DestinationJay Lapidus
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeGary Muller
- DestinationJay Lapidus
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgePat Cash
- DestinationJay Lapidus
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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