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
Hisham Hemeda
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10July 15, 1994View Hisham Hemeda × Ivan Keskinov →02 BridgeOpen career →Ivan Keskinov
1 meeting01July 16, 1993View Ivan Keskinov × Wayne Ferreira →03 BridgeOpen career →Wayne Ferreira
2 meetings20May 5, 2003 — May 12, 2003View Wayne Ferreira × Feliciano Lopez →04 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginHisham Hemeda
- BridgeAndrei Luzgin
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginHisham Hemeda
- BridgeAndrei Luzgin
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginHisham Hemeda
- BridgeAndrei Luzgin
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginHisham Hemeda
- BridgeAndrei Luzgin
- BridgeRui Machado
- BridgeFacundo Bagnis
- 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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