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
Ray Kelly
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
2 meetings20July 25, 1988 — February 13, 1989View Andre Agassi × Jim Pugh →04 BridgeOpen career →Jim Pugh
1 meeting10January 11, 1988View Jim Pugh × Brad Drewett →05 BridgeOpen career →Brad Drewett
1 meeting10October 9, 1978View Brad Drewett × Ray Kelly →06 DestinationOpen career →Ray Kelly
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeMassimiliano Narducci
- BridgeBrad Drewett
- DestinationRay Kelly
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJim Grabb
- BridgeBrad Drewett
- DestinationRay Kelly
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeSyd Ball
- DestinationRay Kelly
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeBrad Drewett
- DestinationRay Kelly
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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