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
Yasir Khan
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 meeting01March 4, 2016View Yasir Khan × Ze Zhang →02 BridgeOpen career →Ze Zhang
1 meeting10October 1, 2012View Ze Zhang × Richard Gasquet →03 BridgeOpen career →Richard Gasquet
2 meetings02July 19, 2021 — January 15, 2024View Richard Gasquet × Carlos Alcaraz →04 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 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginYasir Khan
- BridgeZe Zhang
- BridgeNovak Djokovic
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginYasir Khan
- BridgeZe Zhang
- BridgeRoberto Bautista Agut
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginYasir Khan
- BridgeZe Zhang
- BridgeAdrian Mannarino
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginYasir Khan
- BridgeZe Zhang
- BridgePablo Carreno Busta
- 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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