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
Sebastien Gerard
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
01 1 meeting01February 22, 1988View Sebastien Gerard × Laurent Prades →02 BridgeOpen career →Laurent Prades
1 meeting01July 10, 1989View Laurent Prades × Martin Strelba →03 BridgeOpen career →Martin Strelba
1 meeting01April 17, 1989View Martin Strelba × Goran Ivanisevic →04 BridgeOpen career →Goran Ivanisevic
2 meetings02March 22, 2004 — April 12, 2004View Goran Ivanisevic × Rafael Nadal →05 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Nadal
3 meetings21May 3, 2021 — May 2, 2022View Rafael Nadal × Carlos Alcaraz →06 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 5 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSebastien Gerard
- BridgeLaurent Prades
- BridgeMartin Strelba
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSebastien Gerard
- BridgeLaurent Prades
- BridgeMartin Strelba
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSebastien Gerard
- BridgeLaurent Prades
- BridgeMartin Strelba
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSebastien Gerard
- BridgeLaurent Prades
- BridgeCarl Uwe Steeb
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- 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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