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
Keith Gilbert
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 meeting01March 10, 1980View Keith Gilbert × Rod Frawley →02 BridgeOpen career →Rod Frawley
2 meetings02December 20, 1982 — December 28, 1982View Rod Frawley × Pat Cash →03 BridgeOpen career →Pat Cash
1 meeting01August 3, 1987View Pat Cash × Andre Agassi →04 BridgeOpen career →Andre Agassi
3 meetings21October 14, 2002 — May 9, 2005View Andre Agassi × Feliciano Lopez →05 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × 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.
- OriginKeith Gilbert
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginKeith Gilbert
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginKeith Gilbert
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeDick Norman
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginKeith Gilbert
- BridgeRod Frawley
- BridgePat Cash
- BridgeDick Norman
- BridgeGael Monfils
- 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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