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
Frank Conner
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01June 22, 1968View Frank Conner × Keith Nielsen →02 BridgeOpen career →Keith Nielsen
1 meeting01June 22, 1968View Keith Nielsen × Bob Lutz →03 BridgeOpen career →Bob Lutz
1 meeting10October 27, 1980View Bob Lutz × Kevin Curren →04 BridgeOpen career →Kevin Curren
3 meetings12February 15, 1988 — July 13, 1992View Kevin Curren × Andre Agassi →05 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
3 meetings21October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Andre Agassi × Feliciano Lopez →06 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginFrank Conner
- BridgeKeith Nielsen
- BridgeBob Lutz
- BridgeKevin Curren
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginFrank Conner
- BridgeKeith Nielsen
- BridgeBob Lutz
- BridgeKevin Curren
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginFrank Conner
- BridgeKeith Nielsen
- BridgeBob Lutz
- BridgeKevin Curren
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginFrank Conner
- BridgeKeith Nielsen
- BridgeBob Lutz
- BridgeKevin Curren
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- 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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