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
Francois Van Der Merwe
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 meeting10June 10, 1974View Francois Van Der Merwe × Jun Kamiwazumi →02 BridgeOpen career →Jun Kamiwazumi
1 meeting01August 5, 1973View Jun Kamiwazumi × Jimmy Connors →03 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Connors
1 meeting10August 19, 1991View Jimmy Connors × Todd Martin →04 BridgeOpen career →Todd Martin
1 meeting10August 11, 2003View Todd Martin × 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.
- OriginFrancois Van Der Merwe
- BridgeJun Kamiwazumi
- BridgeBjorn Borg
- BridgeLionel Roux
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginFrancois Van Der Merwe
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginFrancois Van Der Merwe
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginFrancois Van Der Merwe
- BridgeSyd Ball
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- 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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