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
Matt Simpson
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 2 meetings20March 7, 2022 — August 15, 2022View Carlos Alcaraz × Mackenzie McDonald →02 BridgeOpen career →Mackenzie McDonald
1 meeting01February 11, 2019View Mackenzie McDonald × Denis Istomin →03 BridgeOpen career →Denis Istomin
1 meeting10April 11, 2008View Denis Istomin × Patrick Tierro →04 BridgeOpen career →Patrick Tierro
1 meeting10April 6, 2007View Patrick Tierro × Matt Simpson →05 DestinationOpen career →Matt Simpson
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
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeDenis Istomin
- BridgePatrick Tierro
- DestinationMatt Simpson
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeYen Hsun Lu
- BridgePatrick Tierro
- DestinationMatt Simpson
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeDenis Istomin
- BridgePatrick Tierro
- DestinationMatt Simpson
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- BridgeDenis Istomin
- BridgePatrick Tierro
- DestinationMatt Simpson
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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