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
Jerry Van Linge
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 meeting01September 25, 1978View Jerry Van Linge × Jeff Borowiak →02 BridgeOpen career →Jeff Borowiak
1 meeting10November 29, 1983View Jeff Borowiak × Stefan Edberg →03 BridgeOpen career →Stefan Edberg
1 meeting01June 26, 1995View Stefan Edberg × Dick Norman →04 BridgeOpen career →Dick Norman
1 meeting01October 23, 2006View Dick Norman × Richard Gasquet →05 BridgeOpen career →Richard Gasquet
2 meetings02July 19, 2021 — January 15, 2024View Richard Gasquet × 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.
- OriginJerry Van Linge
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeDick Norman
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJerry Van Linge
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeLionel Roux
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJerry Van Linge
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeAdrian Voinea
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJerry Van Linge
- BridgeJeff Borowiak
- BridgeStefan Edberg
- BridgeGaston Etlis
- 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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