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
Vijayant Malik
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 8 meetings62August 8, 2022 — January 19, 2026View Carlos Alcaraz × Tommy Paul →02 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Paul
1 meeting10January 4, 2021View Tommy Paul × Ji Sung Nam →03 BridgeOpen career →Ji Sung Nam
1 meeting10February 1, 2013View Ji Sung Nam × Vijayant Malik →04 DestinationOpen career →Vijayant Malik
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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