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
Tyler Mayers
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 8, 2002View Tyler Mayers × Marcel Felder →02 BridgeOpen career →Marcel Felder
1 meeting01September 23, 2005View Marcel Felder × Gustavo Kuerten →03 BridgeOpen career →Gustavo Kuerten
1 meeting10May 24, 2004View Gustavo Kuerten × Feliciano Lopez →04 BridgeOpen career →Feliciano Lopez
1 meeting01April 5, 2021View Feliciano Lopez × 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.
- OriginTyler Mayers
- BridgeMarcel Felder
- BridgeGustavo Kuerten
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginTyler Mayers
- BridgeMarcel Felder
- BridgeMarcos Daniel
- BridgeRafael Nadal
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginTyler Mayers
- BridgeMarcel Felder
- BridgeMarcos Daniel
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginTyler Mayers
- BridgeMarcel Felder
- BridgeVictor Estrella
- BridgeJordan Thompson
- 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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