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
Ranjeet Virali Murugesan
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 meeting10August 14, 2023View Carlos Alcaraz × Jordan Thompson →02 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
1 meeting01January 11, 2016View Jordan Thompson × Bernard Tomic →03 BridgeOpen career →Bernard Tomic
1 meeting10April 6, 2012View Bernard Tomic × Min Hyoek Cho →04 BridgeOpen career →Min Hyoek Cho
1 meeting10February 1, 2013View Min Hyoek Cho × Ranjeet Virali Murugesan →05 DestinationOpen career →Ranjeet Virali Murugesan
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
- BridgeMackenzie McDonald
- BridgeDenis Istomin
- BridgeSuk Young Jeong
- DestinationRanjeet Virali Murugesan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgeDenis Istomin
- BridgeSuk Young Jeong
- DestinationRanjeet Virali Murugesan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeDenis Istomin
- BridgeSuk Young Jeong
- DestinationRanjeet Virali Murugesan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeMatthew Ebden
- BridgeSuk Young Jeong
- DestinationRanjeet Virali Murugesan
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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