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 Carriedo
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01June 22, 1968View Carlos Carriedo × Steve Avoyer →02 BridgeOpen career →Steve Avoyer
1 meeting01September 14, 1968View Steve Avoyer × Tom Leonard →03 BridgeOpen career →Tom Leonard
1 meeting10September 16, 1973View Tom Leonard × Bjorn Borg →04 BridgeOpen career →Bjorn Borg
1 meeting01April 20, 1992View Bjorn Borg × Wayne Ferreira →05 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
2 meetings20May 5, 2003 — May 12, 2003View Wayne Ferreira × Feliciano Lopez →06 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →07 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginCarlos Carriedo
- BridgeSteve Avoyer
- BridgeTom Leonard
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeLionel Roux
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginCarlos Carriedo
- BridgeSteve Avoyer
- BridgeTom Leonard
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginCarlos Carriedo
- BridgeSteve Avoyer
- BridgeTom Leonard
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginCarlos Carriedo
- BridgeSteve Avoyer
- BridgeTom Leonard
- BridgeBill Scanlon
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
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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