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
Luis Perez Chete
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 1 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting10May 24, 2004View Feliciano Lopez × Nicolas Lapentti →03 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Lapentti
1 meeting10March 31, 1995View Nicolas Lapentti × Luis Perez Chete →04 DestinationOpen career →Luis Perez Chete
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
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationLuis Perez Chete
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationLuis Perez Chete
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationLuis Perez Chete
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- DestinationLuis Perez Chete
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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