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
Jad Ayoub
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 meeting10February 9, 2001View Jad Ayoub × Adel Al Shatti →02 BridgeOpen career →Adel Al Shatti
1 meeting01February 5, 1993View Adel Al Shatti × Tanakorn Srichaphan →03 BridgeOpen career →Tanakorn Srichaphan
1 meeting01September 30, 1996View Tanakorn Srichaphan × Andrei Olhovskiy →04 BridgeOpen career →Andrei Olhovskiy
1 meeting01March 12, 1993View Andrei Olhovskiy × Todd Martin →05 BridgeOpen career →Todd Martin
1 meeting10August 11, 2003View Todd Martin × 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.
- OriginJad Ayoub
- BridgeAdel Al Shatti
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeDick Norman
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJad Ayoub
- BridgeAdel Al Shatti
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeDick Norman
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJad Ayoub
- BridgeAdel Al Shatti
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeDick Norman
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJad Ayoub
- BridgeAdel Al Shatti
- BridgeTanakorn Srichaphan
- BridgeAndrei Olhovskiy
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- 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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