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
Rudolfs Mednis
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 meeting01March 4, 2016View Rudolfs Mednis × Lucas Catarina →02 BridgeOpen career →Lucas Catarina
1 meeting01April 11, 2022View Lucas Catarina × Taylor Fritz →03 BridgeOpen career →Taylor Fritz
6 meetings15March 20, 2023 — November 9, 2025View Taylor Fritz × Carlos Alcaraz →04 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginRudolfs Mednis
- BridgeLucas Catarina
- BridgeJaume Munar
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginRudolfs Mednis
- BridgeAlexandar Lazov
- BridgeMarton Fucsovics
- 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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