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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.

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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Christian Bemba
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz

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

1,306 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01February 1, 1991
    View Christian Bemba × Norbert Oduor →
  2. 1 meeting01January 31, 1992
    View Norbert Oduor × Dinu Pescariu →
  3. 2 meetings11September 24, 1993 — September 10, 2001
    View Dinu Pescariu × Younes El Aynaoui →
  4. 5 meetings23October 14, 2002 — August 8, 2005
    View Younes El Aynaoui × Feliciano Lopez →
  5. 1 meeting01April 5, 2021
    View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →

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.

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.

Reverse the route →