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
Y Wang
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 meeting10October 6, 2000View Y Wang × Ali Hamadeh →02 BridgeOpen career →Ali Hamadeh
1 meeting10April 4, 1997View Ali Hamadeh × Naratorn Srichaphan →03 BridgeOpen career →Naratorn Srichaphan
1 meeting01February 8, 2002View Naratorn Srichaphan × Vadim Kutsenko →04 BridgeOpen career →Vadim Kutsenko
1 meeting01February 24, 2003View Vadim Kutsenko × 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.
- OriginY Wang
- BridgeAli Hamadeh
- BridgeAlistair Hunt
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginY Wang
- BridgeAli Hamadeh
- BridgeAlistair Hunt
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginY Wang
- BridgeAli Hamadeh
- BridgeAlistair Hunt
- BridgeKenneth Carlsen
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginY Wang
- BridgeAli Hamadeh
- BridgeAlistair Hunt
- BridgeDennis Van Scheppingen
- 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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