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
Mohammed Ahmed Saleh
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
01 1 meeting01February 2, 1990View Mohammed Ahmed Saleh × Ali Kadhim →02 BridgeOpen career →Ali Kadhim
1 meeting01February 2, 1990View Ali Kadhim × Esam Abdulaal →03 BridgeOpen career →Esam Abdulaal
1 meeting01February 23, 1996View Esam Abdulaal × Oleg Ogorodov →04 BridgeOpen career →Oleg Ogorodov
1 meeting01March 24, 1997View Oleg Ogorodov × Younes El Aynaoui →05 BridgeOpen career →Younes El Aynaoui
5 meetings23October 14, 2002 — August 8, 2005View Younes El Aynaoui × Feliciano Lopez →06 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginMohammed Ahmed Saleh
- BridgeAli Kadhim
- BridgeEsam Abdulaal
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMohammed Ahmed Saleh
- BridgeAli Kadhim
- BridgeEsam Abdulaal
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMohammed Ahmed Saleh
- BridgeAli Kadhim
- BridgeEsam Abdulaal
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginMohammed Ahmed Saleh
- BridgeAli Kadhim
- BridgeEsam Abdulaal
- BridgeOleg Ogorodov
- BridgeDavide Sanguinetti
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- 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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