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
Yuan Xiong Hui
reaches
Carlos Alcaraz
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 6 links and 7 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 1 meeting01April 4, 1997View Yuan Xiong Hui × Syed Nasir Sherazi →02 BridgeOpen career →Syed Nasir Sherazi
1 meeting01April 2, 1999View Syed Nasir Sherazi × Jicham Zaatini →03 BridgeOpen career →Jicham Zaatini
1 meeting01April 6, 2001View Jicham Zaatini × Michael Brown B395 →04 BridgeOpen career →Michael Brown B395
1 meeting01February 8, 2002View Michael Brown B395 × Jimmy Wang →05 BridgeOpen career →Jimmy Wang
1 meeting01September 12, 2005View Jimmy Wang × Rafael Nadal →06 BridgeOpen career →Rafael Nadal
3 meetings21May 3, 2021 — May 2, 2022View Rafael Nadal × Carlos Alcaraz →07 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 6 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginYuan Xiong Hui
- BridgeSyed Nasir Sherazi
- BridgeJicham Zaatini
- BridgeMichael Brown B395
- BridgeJimmy Wang
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginYuan Xiong Hui
- BridgeSyed Nasir Sherazi
- BridgeJicham Zaatini
- BridgeMichael Brown B395
- BridgeJimmy Wang
- BridgeJeremy Chardy
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginYuan Xiong Hui
- BridgeSyed Nasir Sherazi
- BridgeJicham Zaatini
- BridgeMichael Brown B395
- BridgeJimmy Wang
- BridgeAndy Murray
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginYuan Xiong Hui
- BridgeSyed Nasir Sherazi
- BridgeJicham Zaatini
- BridgeMichael Brown B395
- BridgeJimmy Wang
- BridgeAdrian Mannarino
- 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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