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
Seung Hoon Lee
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 4 links and 5 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01April 7, 2000View Seung Hoon Lee × Fazaluddin Syed →02 BridgeOpen career →Fazaluddin Syed
1 meeting01January 1, 2001View Fazaluddin Syed × Adrian Voinea →03 BridgeOpen career →Adrian Voinea
1 meeting01July 21, 2003View Adrian Voinea × Rafael Nadal →04 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Nadal
3 meetings21May 3, 2021 — May 2, 2022View Rafael Nadal × Carlos Alcaraz →05 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 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSeung Hoon Lee
- BridgeFazaluddin Syed
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSeung Hoon Lee
- BridgeFazaluddin Syed
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSeung Hoon Lee
- BridgeFazaluddin Syed
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSeung Hoon Lee
- BridgeFazaluddin Syed
- BridgeHyung Taik Lee
- BridgeAndy Murray
- 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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