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
Khaled Al Haji
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
01 6 meetings60May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting01July 29, 2024View Karen Khachanov × Seong Chan Hong →03 BridgeOpen career →Seong Chan Hong
1 meeting01February 2, 2018View Seong Chan Hong × Aqeel Khan →04 BridgeOpen career →Aqeel Khan
1 meeting10July 17, 1998View Aqeel Khan × Farshad Talavar →05 BridgeOpen career →Farshad Talavar
1 meeting10April 17, 1998View Farshad Talavar × Khaled Al Haji →06 DestinationOpen career →Khaled Al Haji
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.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeBernabe Zapata Miralles
- BridgeSeong Chan Hong
- BridgeAqeel Khan
- BridgeFarshad Talavar
- DestinationKhaled Al Haji
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeMuhammad Khaliq Siddiq
- BridgeFarhad Tadayon
- DestinationKhaled Al Haji
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeMuhammad Khaliq Siddiq
- BridgeFarhad Tadayon
- DestinationKhaled Al Haji
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeParadorn Srichaphan
- BridgeMuhammad Khaliq Siddiq
- BridgeFarhad Tadayon
- DestinationKhaled Al Haji
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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