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
Ricardo Mena
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 meeting10January 2, 2017View Jordan Thompson × David Ferrer →03 BridgeOpen career →David Ferrer
2 meetings20February 21, 2011 — February 27, 2012View David Ferrer × Santiago Gonzalez →04 BridgeOpen career →Santiago Gonzalez
1 meeting10April 4, 2003View Santiago Gonzalez × Ricardo Mena →05 DestinationOpen career →Ricardo Mena
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
- BridgeJordan Thompson
- BridgeSantiago Giraldo
- BridgeSantiago Gonzalez
- DestinationRicardo Mena
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeQuentin Halys
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeBertrand Madsen
- DestinationRicardo Mena
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- BridgePablo Cuevas
- BridgeBertrand Madsen
- DestinationRicardo Mena
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- BridgeDavid Ferrer
- BridgeSantiago Gonzalez
- DestinationRicardo Mena
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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