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
Todd Perry
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 1 meeting10April 5, 2021View Carlos Alcaraz × Feliciano Lopez →02 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
2 meetings02April 7, 2003 — October 6, 2003View Feliciano Lopez × Max Mirnyi →03 BridgeOpen career →Max Mirnyi
1 meeting10January 15, 2001View Max Mirnyi × Todd Perry →04 DestinationOpen career →Todd Perry
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
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- DestinationTodd Perry
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- DestinationTodd Perry
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeGael Monfils
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- DestinationTodd Perry
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeAndy Murray
- BridgeMax Mirnyi
- DestinationTodd Perry
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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