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
Rauno Suominen
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 meeting01January 22, 1968View Rauno Suominen × Vyacheslav Egorov →02 BridgeOpen career →Vyacheslav Egorov
1 meeting10March 18, 1968View Vyacheslav Egorov × Georges Goven →03 BridgeOpen career →Georges Goven
1 meeting01July 23, 1984View Georges Goven × Claudio Mezzadri →04 BridgeOpen career →Claudio Mezzadri
2 meetings20April 13, 1992 — May 4, 1992View Claudio Mezzadri × Todd Martin →05 BridgeOpen career →Todd Martin
1 meeting10August 11, 2003View Todd Martin × 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.
- OriginRauno Suominen
- BridgeVyacheslav Egorov
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeClaudio Mezzadri
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginRauno Suominen
- BridgeVyacheslav Egorov
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeClaudio Mezzadri
- BridgeYounes El Aynaoui
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginRauno Suominen
- BridgeVyacheslav Egorov
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeClaudio Mezzadri
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginRauno Suominen
- BridgeVyacheslav Egorov
- BridgeGeorges Goven
- BridgeClaudio Mezzadri
- BridgeWayne Ferreira
- 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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