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
Tomas Catar
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 3 meetings12May 3, 2021 — May 2, 2022View Carlos Alcaraz × Rafael Nadal →02 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Nadal
1 meeting10July 21, 2003View Rafael Nadal × Magnus Norman →03 BridgeOpen career →Magnus Norman
1 meeting10July 27, 1998View Magnus Norman × Stefano Cobolli →04 BridgeOpen career →Stefano Cobolli
1 meeting10July 27, 1998View Stefano Cobolli × Tomas Catar →05 DestinationOpen career →Tomas Catar
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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