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 Isner
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10August 14, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Jordan Thompson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
5 meetings23May 29, 2017 — August 14, 2023View Jordan Thompson × John Isner →03 DestinationOpen career →John Isner
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMackenzie McDonald
- DestinationJohn Isner
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- DestinationJohn Isner
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- DestinationJohn Isner
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- DestinationJohn Isner
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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