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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
Ainius Sabaliauskas
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 OriginOpen career →1 meeting01February 3, 2018View Ainius Sabaliauskas × Jurgen Zopp →02 BridgeOpen career →Jurgen Zopp
1 meeting01July 23, 2018View Jurgen Zopp × Matteo Berrettini →03 BridgeOpen career →Matteo Berrettini
4 meetings13October 25, 2021 — July 3, 2023View Matteo Berrettini × 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.
- OriginAinius Sabaliauskas
- BridgeJurgen Zopp
- BridgeRichard Gasquet
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAinius Sabaliauskas
- BridgeJurgen Zopp
- BridgeFabio Fognini
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAinius Sabaliauskas
- BridgeJurgen Zopp
- BridgeFacundo Bagnis
- DestinationCarlos Alcaraz
- OriginAinius Sabaliauskas
- BridgeJurgen Zopp
- BridgeJan-Lennard Struff
- 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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