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
Lionel Eli
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
3 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
1 meeting10September 24, 1993View Andre Agassi × Roger Smith →04 BridgeOpen career →Roger Smith
1 meeting10March 29, 1991View Roger Smith × Lionel Eli →05 DestinationOpen career →Lionel Eli
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeJuan Antonio Marin
- BridgeGenaro Deleon
- DestinationLionel Eli
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeRoger Smith
- DestinationLionel Eli
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeNicolas Massu
- BridgeRoger Smith
- DestinationLionel Eli
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- BridgeJohn Farrington
- DestinationLionel Eli
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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