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
Eduardo Zuleta
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
01 1 meeting01July 11, 1970View Eduardo Zuleta × Georges Goven →02 BridgeOpen career →Georges Goven
1 meeting01July 23, 1984View Georges Goven × Claudio Mezzadri →03 BridgeOpen career →Claudio Mezzadri
1 meeting01August 9, 1993View Claudio Mezzadri × Younes El Aynaoui →04 BridgeOpen career →Younes El Aynaoui
5 meetings23October 14, 2002 — August 8, 2005View Younes El Aynaoui × Feliciano Lopez →05 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginEduardo Zuleta
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeClaudio Mezzadri
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginEduardo Zuleta
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeNduka Odizor
- BridgeRazvan Sabau
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginEduardo Zuleta
- BridgeDick Stockton
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginEduardo Zuleta
- BridgeDick Stockton
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- 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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