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
Jose Olivares
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 9 meetings63August 30, 2021 — March 4, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Cameron Norrie →02 BridgeOpen career →Cameron Norrie
1 meeting10February 19, 2024View Cameron Norrie × Tomas Barrios Vera →03 BridgeOpen career →Tomas Barrios Vera
1 meeting10February 3, 2017View Tomas Barrios Vera × Jose Olivares →04 DestinationOpen career →Jose Olivares
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
- BridgeAlejandro Tabilo
- BridgeTomas Barrios Vera
- DestinationJose Olivares
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeBernabe Zapata Miralles
- BridgeTomas Barrios Vera
- DestinationJose Olivares
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMatteo Berrettini
- BridgeTomas Barrios Vera
- DestinationJose Olivares
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeDominik Koepfer
- BridgeTomas Barrios Vera
- DestinationJose Olivares
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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