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
Jordi Samper Montana
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01May 21, 2018View Jordi Samper Montana × Gilles Simon →02 BridgeOpen career →Gilles Simon
1 meeting10October 19, 2020View Gilles Simon × Jordan Thompson →03 BridgeOpen career →Jordan Thompson
1 meeting01August 14, 2023View Jordan Thompson × Carlos Alcaraz →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginJordi Samper Montana
- BridgeGilles Simon
- BridgeMackenzie McDonald
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJordi Samper Montana
- BridgeGilles Simon
- BridgeLaslo Djere
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJordi Samper Montana
- BridgeGilles Simon
- BridgeKaren Khachanov
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginJordi Samper Montana
- BridgeGilles Simon
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- 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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