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
Nicolaas Scholtz
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 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, 2018View Nicolaas Scholtz × Edan Leshem →02 BridgeOpen career →Edan Leshem
1 meeting01September 13, 2019View Edan Leshem × Mikael Ymer →03 BridgeOpen career →Mikael Ymer
2 meetings20February 8, 2021 — August 23, 2021View Mikael Ymer × Carlos Alcaraz →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginNicolaas Scholtz
- BridgeEdan Leshem
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginNicolaas Scholtz
- BridgeEdan Leshem
- BridgeTomas Machac
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginNicolaas Scholtz
- BridgeEdan Leshem
- BridgeJiri Lehecka
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginNicolaas Scholtz
- BridgeDenis Gremelmayr
- 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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