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
Mark Kaplan
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 × Nikola Milojevic →02 BridgeOpen career →Nikola Milojevic
1 meeting01May 18, 2014View Nikola Milojevic × Ivo Karlovic →03 BridgeOpen career →Ivo Karlovic
1 meeting10December 31, 2001View Ivo Karlovic × Byron Black →04 BridgeOpen career →Byron Black
1 meeting10July 4, 1994View Byron Black × Mark Kaplan →05 DestinationOpen career →Mark Kaplan
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
- BridgeJordan Thompson
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationMark Kaplan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationMark Kaplan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationMark Kaplan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeIvo Karlovic
- BridgeByron Black
- DestinationMark Kaplan
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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