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
Marcus Sarstrand
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 6 meetings60May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting10March 6, 2017View Karen Khachanov × Tommy Robredo →03 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Robredo
1 meeting10July 7, 2003View Tommy Robredo × Marcus Sarstrand →04 DestinationOpen career →Marcus Sarstrand
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
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- DestinationMarcus Sarstrand
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeBernabe Zapata Miralles
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- DestinationMarcus Sarstrand
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeStefanos Tsitsipas
- BridgeTommy Robredo
- DestinationMarcus Sarstrand
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeThomas Johansson
- DestinationMarcus Sarstrand
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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