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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
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Historical windowOnly matches played within this period may create links.
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Shortest path found

Rolf Spitzer
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz

Historical windowComplete archive

The connection uses 5 links and 6 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.

The complete route

Career by career

4,198 players examined
  1. 1 meeting01December 29, 1977
    View Rolf Spitzer × Eric Deblicker →
  2. 2 meetings02May 22, 1978 — May 29, 1978
    View Eric Deblicker × Bjorn Borg →
  3. 1 meeting01April 20, 1992
    View Bjorn Borg × Wayne Ferreira →
  4. 2 meetings20May 5, 2003 — May 12, 2003
    View Wayne Ferreira × Feliciano Lopez →
  5. 1 meeting01April 5, 2021
    View Feliciano Lopez × Carlos Alcaraz →

Parallel routes

One search may have several correct answers.

Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.

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.

Reverse the route →