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
Wan Gao
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 meeting01April 11, 2008View Wan Gao × Aditya Hari Sasongko →02 BridgeOpen career →Aditya Hari Sasongko
1 meeting01April 6, 2012View Aditya Hari Sasongko × Danai Udomchoke →03 BridgeOpen career →Danai Udomchoke
1 meeting01January 15, 2007View Danai Udomchoke × Novak Djokovic →04 BridgeOpen career →Novak Djokovic
10 meetings55May 2, 2022 — January 19, 2026View Novak Djokovic × Carlos Alcaraz →05 DestinationOpen career →Carlos Alcaraz
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 2 more sequences with the same 4 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginWan Gao
- BridgeAditya Hari Sasongko
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginWan Gao
- BridgeAditya Hari Sasongko
- BridgeDanai Udomchoke
- BridgeMarin Cilic
- 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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