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.

Choose both ends of the storyComplete archive · walkovers excluded
Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

M Arenzon
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

2,849 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01November 21, 1983
    View M Arenzon × Edson Krause
  2. 1 meeting01November 21, 1983
    View Carlos Chabalgoity × Ivan Kley
  3. 1 meeting01October 17, 1988
    View Ivan Kley × Goran Ivanisevic
  4. 2 meetings02March 22, 2004 — April 12, 2004
    View Goran Ivanisevic × Rafael Nadal
  5. 3 meetings21May 3, 2021 — May 2, 2022
    View Rafael Nadal × Carlos 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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