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
Thien Nguyen Hoang
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 3 meetings12May 3, 2021 — May 2, 2022View Carlos Alcaraz × Rafael Nadal →02 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Nadal
1 meeting10January 1, 2007View Rafael Nadal × Karan Rastogi →03 BridgeOpen career →Karan Rastogi
1 meeting10February 3, 2017View Karan Rastogi × Thien Nguyen Hoang →04 DestinationOpen career →Thien Nguyen Hoang
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeHady Habib
- BridgeSharmal Dissanayake
- DestinationThien Nguyen Hoang
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeHady Habib
- BridgeHarshana Godamanna
- DestinationThien Nguyen Hoang
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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