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 Paul Fruttero
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 2 meetings20March 7, 2022 — August 15, 2022View Carlos Alcaraz × Mackenzie McDonald →02 BridgeOpen career →Mackenzie McDonald
1 meeting10February 18, 2019View Mackenzie McDonald × Guillermo Garcia Lopez →03 BridgeOpen career →Guillermo Garcia Lopez
1 meeting10September 26, 2005View Guillermo Garcia Lopez × John Paul Fruttero →04 DestinationOpen career →John Paul Fruttero
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeGuillermo Garcia Lopez
- DestinationJohn Paul Fruttero
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- BridgeGuillermo Garcia Lopez
- DestinationJohn Paul Fruttero
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeReilly Opelka
- BridgeGuillermo Garcia Lopez
- DestinationJohn Paul Fruttero
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeGuillermo Garcia Lopez
- DestinationJohn Paul Fruttero
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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