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 Schembri
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 21, 2002 — May 24, 2004View Feliciano Lopez × Karol Kucera →03 BridgeOpen career →Karol Kucera
1 meeting10July 27, 1998View Karol Kucera × Borut Urh →04 BridgeOpen career →Borut Urh
1 meeting10July 12, 1996View Borut Urh × Mark Schembri →05 DestinationOpen career →Mark Schembri
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
- BridgeTim Henman
- BridgeIsaac Donkor
- DestinationMark Schembri
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAttila Savolt
- BridgeBorut Urh
- DestinationMark Schembri
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAgustin Calleri
- BridgeBorut Urh
- DestinationMark Schembri
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeKarol Kucera
- BridgeBorut Urh
- DestinationMark Schembri
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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