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
Tony Bowles
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 5 links and 6 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
3 meetings12October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Feliciano Lopez × Andre Agassi →03 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
4 meetings31October 13, 1986 — March 5, 1990View Andre Agassi × Jimmy Arias →04 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Arias
1 meeting10August 15, 1983View Jimmy Arias × Colin Dowdeswell →05 BridgeOpen career →Colin Dowdeswell
1 meeting10April 8, 1972View Colin Dowdeswell × Tony Bowles →06— DestinationOpen career →Tony Bowles
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeColin Dowdeswell
- —DestinationTony Bowles
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeAmos Mansdorf
- BridgeColin Dowdeswell
- —DestinationTony Bowles
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeAndrei Chesnokov
- BridgeColin Dowdeswell
- —DestinationTony Bowles
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeJonas Svensson
- BridgeColin Dowdeswell
- —DestinationTony Bowles
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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