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
Milan Trneny
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
2 meetings02May 5, 2003 — May 12, 2003View Feliciano Lopez × Wayne Ferreira →03 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
4 meetings40September 30, 1991 — May 8, 1995View Wayne Ferreira × Dimitri Poliakov →04 BridgeOpen career →Dimitri Poliakov
1 meeting10August 5, 1991View Dimitri Poliakov × Milan Trneny →05 DestinationOpen career →Milan Trneny
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
- BridgeFabrice Santoro
- BridgeDimitri Poliakov
- DestinationMilan Trneny
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeYevgeny Kafelnikov
- BridgeDimitri Poliakov
- DestinationMilan Trneny
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAlex Corretja
- BridgeDimitri Poliakov
- DestinationMilan Trneny
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeDimitri Poliakov
- DestinationMilan Trneny
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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