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
Segun Balogun
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 26, 1979View Segun Balogun × Reinhart Probst →02 BridgeOpen career →Reinhart Probst
2 meetings20November 12, 1979 — March 10, 1980View Reinhart Probst × Andres Gomez →03 BridgeOpen career →Andres Gomez
1 meeting01March 12, 1993View Andres Gomez × Vincent Spadea →04 BridgeOpen career →Vincent Spadea
3 meetings21September 30, 2002 — February 12, 2007View Vincent Spadea × Feliciano Lopez →05 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × 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.
- OriginSegun Balogun
- BridgePeter Elter
- BridgeCarl Limberger
- BridgeGoran Ivanisevic
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSegun Balogun
- BridgePeter Elter
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSegun Balogun
- BridgePeter Elter
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSegun Balogun
- BridgePeter Elter
- BridgeJakob Hlasek
- BridgeAndre Agassi
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- 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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