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
Harry Brittain
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 meeting01December 21, 1975View Harry Brittain × Brian Fairlie →02 BridgeOpen career →Brian Fairlie
1 meeting10May 23, 1977View Brian Fairlie × Yannick Noah →03 BridgeOpen career →Yannick Noah
1 meeting01October 16, 1995View Yannick Noah × Greg Rusedski →04 BridgeOpen career →Greg Rusedski
1 meeting01April 7, 2006View Greg Rusedski × Novak Djokovic →05 BridgeOpen career →Novak Djokovic
10 meetings55May 2, 2022 — January 19, 2026View Novak Djokovic × 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.
- OriginHarry Brittain
- BridgeUlrich Pinner
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginHarry Brittain
- BridgeUlrich Pinner
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginHarry Brittain
- BridgeUlrich Pinner
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginHarry Brittain
- BridgeUlrich Pinner
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeTodd Martin
- 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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