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
Sultan Khalfan
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 6 meetings60May 23, 2022 — February 16, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Karen Khachanov →02 BridgeOpen career →Karen Khachanov
1 meeting10July 2, 2018View Karen Khachanov × Marcos Baghdatis →03 BridgeOpen career →Marcos Baghdatis
1 meeting10January 2, 2006View Marcos Baghdatis × Sultan Khalfan →04 DestinationOpen career →Sultan Khalfan
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndrey Rublev
- BridgeMarcos Baghdatis
- DestinationSultan Khalfan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeTaylor Fritz
- BridgeMarcos Baghdatis
- DestinationSultan Khalfan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFrances Tiafoe
- BridgeMarcos Baghdatis
- DestinationSultan Khalfan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeMatteo Berrettini
- BridgeMarcos Baghdatis
- DestinationSultan Khalfan
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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