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
Sofiane Rais Ali
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 meeting01July 12, 1996View Sofiane Rais Ali × Dusan Vemic →02 BridgeOpen career →Dusan Vemic
1 meeting01July 10, 2006View Dusan Vemic × Marin Cilic →03 BridgeOpen career →Marin Cilic
5 meetings14April 26, 2021 — February 17, 2025View Marin Cilic × Carlos Alcaraz →04 DestinationOpen career →Carlos 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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