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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.

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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
John Van Nostrand

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

3,071 players examined
  1. 1 meeting10April 5, 2021
    View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →
  2. 3 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005
    View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi →
  3. 2 meetings20July 25, 1988 — February 13, 1989
    View Andre Agassi × Jim Pugh →
  4. 1 meeting10September 28, 1987
    View Jim Pugh × Sammy Giammalva Jr →
  5. 1 meeting10March 26, 1984
    View Sammy Giammalva Jr × John Van Nostrand →

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.

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.

Reverse the route →