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
Francesco Maestrelli
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 2 links and 3 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01March 30, 2026View Francesco Maestrelli × Botic van de Zandschulp →02 BridgeOpen career →Botic van de Zandschulp
4 meetings13February 8, 2021 — February 3, 2025View Botic van de Zandschulp × Carlos Alcaraz →03 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 3 more sequences with the same 2 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginFrancesco Maestrelli
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginFrancesco Maestrelli
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginFrancesco Maestrelli
- BridgeJ.J. Wolf
- 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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