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
Will Bull
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
6 meetings42May 11, 1987 — May 4, 1992View Andre Agassi × Martin Jaite →04 BridgeOpen career →Martin Jaite
1 meeting10February 5, 1990View Martin Jaite × John Sobel →05 BridgeOpen career →John Sobel
1 meeting10July 10, 1989View John Sobel × Will Bull →06 DestinationOpen career →Will Bull
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
- BridgeNicklas Kulti
- BridgeJohn Sobel
- DestinationWill Bull
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeDavid Pate
- BridgeJohn Sobel
- DestinationWill Bull
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeNicklas Kulti
- BridgeJohn Sobel
- DestinationWill Bull
- OriginCarlos Alcaraz
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- BridgeTodd Martin
- BridgeDavid Pate
- BridgeJohn Sobel
- DestinationWill Bull
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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