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 Ashkanani
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 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
2 meetings02January 9, 2017 — August 28, 2017View Karen Khachanov × Yen Hsun Lu →03 BridgeOpen career →Yen Hsun Lu
1 meeting10April 6, 2001View Yen Hsun Lu × Selvam Veerasingam →04 BridgeOpen career →Selvam Veerasingam
2 meetings02February 5, 1988 — February 3, 1989View Selvam Veerasingam × Umesha Wallooppillai →05 BridgeOpen career →Umesha Wallooppillai
1 meeting10May 3, 1991View Umesha Wallooppillai × Samer Mourad →06 BridgeOpen career →Samer Mourad
1 meeting01February 2, 1990View Samer Mourad × Khaled Ashkanani →07 DestinationOpen career →Khaled Ashkanani
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeArjun Fernando
- BridgeSamer Mourad
- DestinationKhaled Ashkanani
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeReilly Opelka
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeUmesha Wallooppillai
- BridgeSamer Mourad
- DestinationKhaled Ashkanani
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeReilly Opelka
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeArjun Fernando
- BridgeSamer Mourad
- DestinationKhaled Ashkanani
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgeSelvam Veerasingam
- BridgeUmesha Wallooppillai
- BridgeSamer Mourad
- DestinationKhaled Ashkanani
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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