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
Deniss Pavlovs
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
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 2 meetings20March 4, 2005 — March 4, 2011View Deniss Pavlovs × Alexandros Jakupovic →02 BridgeOpen career →Alexandros Jakupovic
1 meeting01January 31, 2014View Alexandros Jakupovic × Damir Dzumhur →03 BridgeOpen career →Damir Dzumhur
2 meetings02May 26, 2025 — August 7, 2025View Damir Dzumhur × Carlos Alcaraz →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginDeniss Pavlovs
- BridgeIzak Van Der Merwe
- BridgeMarin Cilic
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDeniss Pavlovs
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDeniss Pavlovs
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- BridgeCameron Norrie
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginDeniss Pavlovs
- BridgeJanko Tipsarevic
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- 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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