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
William Kirkman
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 meeting01January 31, 2014View William Kirkman × Santiago Maresca →02 BridgeOpen career →Santiago Maresca
1 meeting01October 30, 2015View Santiago Maresca × Darian King →03 BridgeOpen career →Darian King
1 meeting01February 18, 2019View Darian King × Lloyd Harris →04 BridgeOpen career →Lloyd Harris
1 meeting01August 28, 2023View Lloyd Harris × 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.
- OriginWilliam Kirkman
- BridgeSantiago Maresca
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeGael Monfils
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginWilliam Kirkman
- BridgeSantiago Maresca
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeNicola Kuhn
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginWilliam Kirkman
- BridgeSantiago Maresca
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeDavid Goffin
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginWilliam Kirkman
- BridgeSantiago Maresca
- BridgeDarian King
- BridgeNikoloz Basilashvili
- 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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