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
Rotimi Akinloye
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 6 meetings51November 13, 2023 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Andrey Rublev →02 BridgeOpen career →Andrey Rublev
1 meeting10May 17, 2015View Andrey Rublev × Jarkko Nieminen →03 BridgeOpen career →Jarkko Nieminen
1 meeting10July 21, 2006View Jarkko Nieminen × Abdelhak Hameurlaine →04 BridgeOpen career →Abdelhak Hameurlaine
1 meeting01May 8, 1991View Abdelhak Hameurlaine × Clement Ngoran →05 BridgeOpen career →Clement Ngoran
1 meeting10March 13, 1987View Clement Ngoran × Rotimi Akinloye →06 DestinationOpen career →Rotimi Akinloye
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
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- DestinationRotimi Akinloye
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgePaul Wekesa
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- DestinationRotimi Akinloye
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeAntoine Beugre
- DestinationRotimi Akinloye
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeByron Black
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- DestinationRotimi Akinloye
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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