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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
Abdel Majid Soudani
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01January 30, 1987View Abdel Majid Soudani × Clement Ngoran →02 BridgeOpen career →Clement Ngoran
1 meeting01October 2, 1995View Clement Ngoran × Richey Reneberg →03 BridgeOpen career →Richey Reneberg
2 meetings20April 11, 1994 — May 6, 1996View Richey Reneberg × Chris Woodruff →04 BridgeOpen career →Chris Woodruff
1 meeting01March 4, 2002View Chris Woodruff × 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.
- OriginAbdel Majid Soudani
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeLionel Roux
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAbdel Majid Soudani
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeSargis Sargsian
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAbdel Majid Soudani
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeGaston Etlis
- BridgeFeliciano Lopez
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAbdel Majid Soudani
- BridgeClement Ngoran
- BridgeRichey Reneberg
- BridgeJens Knippschild
- 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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