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
John Howarth
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
3 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
5 meetings41April 20, 1987 — October 5, 1992View Andre Agassi × Jim Grabb →04 BridgeOpen career →Jim Grabb
1 meeting10July 22, 1985View Jim Grabb × John Lloyd →05 BridgeOpen career →John Lloyd
1 meeting10December 31, 1973View John Lloyd × Frank Sedgman →06 BridgeOpen career →Frank Sedgman
1 meeting10May 31, 1971View Frank Sedgman × John Howarth →07 DestinationOpen career →John Howarth
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJim Grabb
- BridgeJohn Lloyd
- BridgeJohn De Mendoza
- DestinationJohn Howarth
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeJaime Fillol
- BridgeJohn De Mendoza
- DestinationJohn Howarth
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeFrank Sedgman
- DestinationJohn Howarth
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeRoss Case
- BridgeFrank Sedgman
- DestinationJohn Howarth
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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