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
Vijayant Malik
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 1, 2013View Vijayant Malik × Ji Sung Nam →02 BridgeOpen career →Ji Sung Nam
1 meeting01January 4, 2021View Ji Sung Nam × Tommy Paul →03 BridgeOpen career →Tommy Paul
8 meetings26August 8, 2022 — January 19, 2026View Tommy Paul × 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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