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
Magnus Nilsson
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting10July 9, 1990View Magnus Nilsson × Jose Francisco Altur →02 BridgeOpen career →Jose Francisco Altur
1 meeting01March 7, 1994View Jose Francisco Altur × Jonas Bjorkman →03 BridgeOpen career →Jonas Bjorkman
2 meetings20September 23, 2002 — June 19, 2006View Jonas Bjorkman × Feliciano Lopez →04 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMagnus Nilsson
- BridgeJose Francisco Altur
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMagnus Nilsson
- BridgeJose Francisco Altur
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMagnus Nilsson
- BridgeJose Francisco Altur
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMagnus Nilsson
- BridgeJose Francisco Altur
- BridgeJonas Bjorkman
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- 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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