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
Peter Bothwell
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 7 meetings61April 5, 2021 — March 4, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Casper Ruud →02 BridgeOpen career →Casper Ruud
1 meeting10April 7, 2017View Casper Ruud × Soren Hess Olesen →03 BridgeOpen career →Soren Hess Olesen
1 meeting01February 3, 2018View Soren Hess Olesen × Peter Bothwell →04 DestinationOpen career →Peter Bothwell
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
- BridgeCasper Ruud
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- DestinationPeter Bothwell
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- DestinationPeter Bothwell
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- DestinationPeter Bothwell
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMarius Copil
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- DestinationPeter Bothwell
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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