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
Spencer Newman
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 meeting01February 3, 2017View Spencer Newman × Luis David Martinez →02 BridgeOpen career →Luis David Martinez
1 meeting01September 16, 2016View Luis David Martinez × Nicolas Alvarez →03 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Alvarez
1 meeting01September 17, 2022View Nicolas Alvarez × Nicolas Jarry →04 BridgeOpen career →Nicolas Jarry
4 meetings13February 20, 2023 — October 28, 2024View Nicolas Jarry × 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.
- OriginSpencer Newman
- BridgeLuis David Martinez
- BridgeNicolas Alvarez
- BridgeAlejandro Tabilo
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSpencer Newman
- BridgeLuis David Martinez
- BridgeNicolas Alvarez
- BridgeDamir Dzumhur
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSpencer Newman
- BridgeLuis David Martinez
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeJordan Thompson
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginSpencer Newman
- BridgeLuis David Martinez
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeNicolas Jarry
- 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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