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
Tarek El Sakka
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 meeting10May 10, 1985View Tarek El Sakka × Kamel Harrad →02 BridgeOpen career →Kamel Harrad
1 meeting01May 4, 1984View Kamel Harrad × Emilio Sanchez →03 BridgeOpen career →Emilio Sanchez
1 meeting01June 10, 1996View Emilio Sanchez × Bernardo Mota →04 BridgeOpen career →Bernardo Mota
1 meeting01April 7, 2003View Bernardo Mota × 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.
- OriginTarek El Sakka
- BridgeKamel Harrad
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeJiri Novak
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginTarek El Sakka
- BridgeKamel Harrad
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeJiri Novak
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginTarek El Sakka
- BridgeKamel Harrad
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeJiri Novak
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginTarek El Sakka
- BridgeKamel Harrad
- BridgeEmilio Sanchez
- BridgeAlberto Martin
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- 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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