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
Mike Vermeer
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
3 meetings21June 13, 2010 — February 23, 2015View Feliciano Lopez × James Ward →03 BridgeOpen career →James Ward
1 meeting10July 8, 2011View James Ward × Mike Vermeer →04 DestinationOpen career →Mike Vermeer
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
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- BridgeVladimir Ivanov
- DestinationMike Vermeer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeConor Niland
- DestinationMike Vermeer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- BridgeJames Ward
- DestinationMike Vermeer
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- BridgeJames Ward
- DestinationMike Vermeer
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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