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
Lars Elvstrom
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, 1974View Lars Elvstrom × Georges Goven →02 BridgeOpen career →Georges Goven
2 meetings11February 22, 1982 — April 27, 1982View Georges Goven × Nduka Odizor →03 BridgeOpen career →Nduka Odizor
1 meeting01April 30, 1993View Nduka Odizor × Razvan Sabau →04 BridgeOpen career →Razvan Sabau
1 meeting01May 1, 2006View Razvan Sabau × Gael Monfils →05 BridgeOpen career →Gael Monfils
4 meetings13March 7, 2022 — October 2, 2024View Gael Monfils × 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.
- OriginLars Elvstrom
- BridgeManuel Orantes
- BridgeJohn Ross
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginLars Elvstrom
- BridgeManuel Orantes
- BridgeJohn Ross
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginLars Elvstrom
- BridgeManuel Orantes
- BridgeMiloslav Mecir
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginLars Elvstrom
- BridgeManuel Orantes
- BridgeJimmy Arias
- BridgeTodd Martin
- 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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