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
Simon Carr
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 meeting01February 3, 2018View Simon Carr × Soren Hess Olesen →02 BridgeOpen career →Soren Hess Olesen
1 meeting01April 7, 2017View Soren Hess Olesen × Casper Ruud →03 BridgeOpen career →Casper Ruud
7 meetings16April 5, 2021 — March 4, 2026View Casper Ruud × Carlos Alcaraz →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSimon Carr
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- BridgeCasper Ruud
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSimon Carr
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- BridgeLloyd Harris
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSimon Carr
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSimon Carr
- BridgeFrederik Nielsen
- BridgeMarius Copil
- 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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