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
Tim Donovan
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10August 25, 2025View Carlos Alcaraz × Reilly Opelka →02 BridgeOpen career →Reilly Opelka
1 meeting01April 10, 2017View Reilly Opelka × Tommy Haas →03 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Haas
2 meetings20March 9, 1998 — January 1, 2001View Tommy Haas × Jason Stoltenberg →04 BridgeOpen career →Jason Stoltenberg
1 meeting10August 7, 1989View Jason Stoltenberg × Tim Donovan →05 DestinationOpen career →Tim Donovan
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeDerrick Rostagno
- DestinationTim Donovan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeNeil Broad
- DestinationTim Donovan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJason Stoltenberg
- DestinationTim Donovan
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgePaul Annacone
- DestinationTim Donovan
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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