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.

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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Carlos Alcaraz
reaches
Stephen Slocombe

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

2,873 players examined
  1. 3 meetings21October 30, 2023 — August 31, 2026
    View Carlos Alcaraz × Roman Safiullin →
  2. 1 meeting10September 24, 2026
    View Roman Safiullin × Fajing Sun →
  3. 1 meeting01September 13, 2025
    View Fajing Sun × Michael Agwi →
  4. 1 meeting10September 12, 2025
    View Fadi Bidan × Stephen Slocombe →

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.

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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