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
Thomas Shimada
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 4 meetings31March 7, 2022 — October 2, 2024View Carlos Alcaraz × Gael Monfils →02 BridgeOpen career →Gael Monfils
1 meeting10May 1, 2006View Gael Monfils × Razvan Sabau →03 BridgeOpen career →Razvan Sabau
1 meeting10April 14, 1997View Razvan Sabau × Thomas Shimada →04 DestinationOpen career →Thomas Shimada
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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